Ricercatori italiani in Danimarca
11 Giugno –
Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman,
and today human populations: an incredible journey through archaeology, history, evolution and genetics.
Un conversazione con Luca Ermini, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow – Natural History Museum of Denmark (in inglese)
It was Thursday, the 19th September 1991, just two days after Guns and Roses released Use your Illusion I&II and five days before the Seattle-based band Nirvana released their second album Nevermind. That day, two German hikers were on their way up through the Ötztal Alps when they discovered a well-preserved corpse surfacing from the melting ice. That body, initially believed belonging to a recently deceased mountaineer was, turned out to be the oldest preserved human mummy ever found in Europe. The mummy, commonly known as Ötzi offers an unprecedented view of 5000 years ago European and since his discovery, he has been the object of numerous investigations. In particular, genetic analysis revealed, among the others, he was lactose intolerant and predisposed to cardiovascular diseases suggesting that such a genetic predisposition already existed during the Neolithic. Therefore, it seems that, over the time, his genetic maternal lineage may have gone extinct. Ötzi is one of the world’s most celebrated human mummies and beginning from him, a human witness of our past we will walk through our history, made by civilization, colonizations and epidemies. Throughout evolution and genetics, therefore we will attempt to understand what to be a human means in the 21st century.
Luogo: IIC.
L’Istituto di Cultura offrirà un buffet di specialità italiane dopo la conferenza.
Prenotazione indispensabile all’indirizzo email: roberto.valesin@esteri.it .
ATTENZIONE!! A causa di lavori in corso a Gjørlingsvej e strade limitrofe segnaliamo problemi per il parcheggio. L’istituto si può raggiungere dalla stazione di Hellerup (10 minuti a piedi).