Who was Ötzi?
Ötzi the Iceman is the most famous Early European Farmer and the oldest natural mummy in Europe. He lived in South Tyrol around 3200 BC but his frozen body was discovered in the Ötztal Alps on the border of Austria and Italy, hence the nickname Ötzi. The Early European Farmers (EEF) originated in Western Anatolia and migrated into Europe during the Neolithic around 9000 years ago, where they displaced and interbred with native West European Hunter-Gatherers.
Ötzi was a short, 45-year-old man, measuring 5’3, and covered in tattoos, 61 in total. At the time of his death, he wore a leather coat, loincloth, and leggings, coupled with a stylish cloak made from woven grass, a bearskin fur hat, and high-quality snow shoes, waterproof and insulated, likely produced by the Chalcolithic equivalent of a professional cobbler. Analysis of Ötzi’s stomach contents revealed a diet of meat, roots, fruits, herbs, seeds, and bread. His last meal was a few slices of dried goat bacon. Ötzi wielded various weapons: a chert knife, a longbow, 14 arrows, a 5’9 wooden staff, and a finely crafted copper axe.
Unfortunately, well-armed Ötzi was killed in combat, likely bleeding to death after being shot in the scapula by an arrow, which lodged near his lung. Analysis of his body found numerous bruises and cuts to his hands, wrists, and chest, and cerebral trauma, indicating a blow to the head. However, DNA analysis revealed blood from at least four other people on his weapons and equipment, indicating that Ötzi had killed at least two of his attackers. Not bad for the Chalcolithic equivalent of a senior citizen.
Blackwashing
Ötzi recently received increased media attention following a new 2023 study (Wang et al). He has now joined the extensive ranks of Blackwashed Europeans. Early European Farmers aren’t new to being slandered — people have falsely accused them of being egalitarian, matriarchal, feminist pacifists for decades now — but this is the first time they have been described as “dark-skinned.”
EEF were 95% genetically identical to modern Sardinians (pictured below) and countless studies have consistently proven that they were phenotypically near-indistinguishable. They had light, tanned/olive skin pigmentation (Hanel 2020), often described as ‘intermediate,’ and mostly dark hair and eyes, with some instances of blondism and blue eyes (Allentoft 2022). The EEF skin tone would not look out of place anywhere in modern Europe. As stated by Lazaridis 2022, “intermediate skin tones are commonly found in present-day Mediterranean populations and pale ones in present-day Northern European ones.”
Moreover, the EEF’s light skin tone had evolved before they left Anatolia and was not an adaptation to colder and darker European climates: “Based on the comparison between LBK [EEF] and Anatolia_N, we did not see a major shift in skin color SNPs that are involved in determining lighter skin pigmentation, suggesting that this adaptation already happened in Anatolia” (Childebayeva 2022).
Below: Hair and eye pigmentation of Europeans dating from the Mesolithic to Bronze Age (Allentoft 2022).
Below: Principal component analyses from Lazaridis 2013 and Feldman 2019.
These well-established facts did not stop the corrupt authors of the new 2023 study from falsely claiming that Ötzi had “dark skin.” Nor did their own genetic data, which proved that Ötzi’s skin pigmentation was near-identical to modern Sardinians (only 0.002 darker) and slightly lighter than the more northerly EEF of the LBK Culture (who had light/intermediate skin).
The authors concealed this pigmentation data in the additional Supplementary Materials PDF (that nobody ever reads), while repeatedly calling Ötzi “dark-skinned” in the main paper. They also provided no information on their polygenic score methodology and only included one modern reference population. So, we can’t even translate these polygenic scores into actual skin tones.
Deranged journalists spared no time and immediately flooded the mainstream media with propaganda pieces claiming that Europe’s earliest mummy was a “non-White immigrant with dark skin.” Leftist academics were happy to help them peddle these lies. Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute claimed “People that lived in Europe between 40,000 years ago and 8,000 years ago were as dark as people in Africa, which makes a lot of sense because [Africa is] where humans came from” (quoted by Science News). Left-Wing artists, like Tom Bjorklund (who has a history of Blackwashing Europeans), produced ludicrous facial “reconstructions,” depicting poor Ötzi as a swarthy South Indian or Sub-Saharan African. Cue the endless, smug gloating from rabid Leftist hordes: “Mmm yummy racist tears. Why do you even care about his skin color, you bigot? Looks like Whites have no claim to Europe after all, it’s always been a diverse continent of brown immigrants.”
I wonder where these anti-White scum think Europeans and their light skin and features came from in the first place. Because from the way they explain history, you’d think that we just fell from the sky in the Middle Ages to start colonizing and conquering the world.
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It’s only a matter of time before they begin claiming Proto-Indo-Europeans, or even Ancient North Eurasians, were black. Once all source populations of Europeans are deemed black, I wonder what their explanation for White skin will be.
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Russia already made the claim that Kostenki 14 (or a similar find) was black. They lied of course.
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Nah they said he was Australoid. Some other Russian scientists did a better analysis and reclassified him as proto-Caucasoid.
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The Science News article linked above says it’s because they started eating plant based diets and got less vitamin from fish and meats lol. Oh and it was also only about 3000-4000 years ago.
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Thanks for the article. Cheers.
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Hey thule, I got a question that’s unrelated to the topic of the article but nonetheless is really important to me to keep myself alive. What is the best spiritual path to follow? I virtually looked into every religion that was followed by Europeans, but none seem to fulfill white ethnic interest also. I looked into Christianity, but it had too much of an emphasis on christians over other whites. I also looked into paganism, which is closer to me because I tend to be a very nature loving guy like most whites, but my problem with paganism exactly is that its been awhile since we authentically worshipped our gods, also i feel like it could lead us to ignore our ancestors after Christianity. So when it comes to spirituality, what do you personally recommend? And how should we implement it into our nationalist world views
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hello friend.
Let’s say I ran a marathon, but I would like to make a suggestion for an article about misgenation, I know you’ve already written some articles involving this concept, but not an article of its own, talking about its harms and the like.
It is one of the most talked about topics among “based” people and among non-leftist groups, well I feel that this could be better explained, and unfortunately it causes repulsion in many people, perhaps mixed or not.
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I have a few studies on the topic, I’ll put together a short article.
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Hi Thule big fan long comment but here goes would like your thoughts???
I think a severely overlooked issue is that asians will replace us at Harvard & the Ivies by end of this century. The study you cited on affirmative action used too low a cut off of 1250 whereas Ivies have requirements of 1400+ where asians are vastly overespresented. I believe they are 60% of those scoring in top 1% of SAT whilst only being 5% of US Population.
I’m just increasingly blackpilled as it looks like the West will have brahmin/hans chinese elite very soon. I mean look at Silicon Valley, England, Portual, Ireland, nikki haley, STEM/Classical Music Competitions… they outnumber us already.
Europeans are told asians emphasise education which is they do so well but that’s because of their strong racial identity which we are forbidden to have. Imagine the predictable cries of ”natzee” if Germans said time to get more educated & study twice as long per day. We cant even have specific ethnic identity because ”muh cheddar man & muh english dont exist ” so its hard to compete when we are atomized & deracinated. We need strong leadership who says it’s time for us to come together & be the hardest workers in the world.
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hey thule, I just read recently the “outbreeding and inbreeding goldilocks zone” on your telegram, and I’ve read it further; and seen comments made by Rizib Khan. In it; he said that EEF and WHG were genetically as distant from eachother as northern europeans are to Han-chinese. I know this is possibly b-llsh-t b but im curious what your opinions are on this? and the other things he said, Of course.
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It’s accurate. Europeans are the result of three genetically distinct ancestral groups mixed together.
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It’s not accurate. You can see on PCA that Europeans and East Asians are more distantly related than EEF and WHG.
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Ridiculous at the most surface level. WHG and EEF were both Caucasoid. The Caucasoid/Mongoloid/Negroid distinctions represent two genetic divergences. Every Caucasoid group is more closely related to every other Caucasoid group than to any Mongoloid group. Since neither EEF, nor WHG, nor Northern Europeans have any Mongoloid admixture (inb4 Sami LMFAO), his claim is impossible.
I seriously don’t understand how he could begin to argue that. More time since divergence = more genetically distant, in the absence of crossbreeding (of which no statistically significant quantity has taken place). It’s as simple as that.
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It’s debunked by data from his own study: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14615 (see PCA below) and the only reason he told that bizarre lie is to promote miscegenation and immigration: “You have to be more open to immigration. You have to be more open to the mixing of different peoples. That’s your own history.” https://web.archive.org/web/20180315122058/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/ancient-dna-history/554798/
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Why no posts recently?
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Busy IRL, posting on other platforms, compiling articles for new substack.
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Hi Thule, can you check out my comment on the incoming Asian elite?
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Martin Bernal and Melville Herskowits: The Jews Who Created Afrocentrism
https://www.renegadetribune.com/martin-bernal-and-melville-herskowits-the-jews-who-created-afrocentrism
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