Editing Ötzi (section)

===Clothes and shoes===
[[File:Archeoparc - Museum Ötzi Kleidung.jpg|thumb|upright|Reconstruction of the neolithic clothes worn by Ötzi at the Archeoparc Museum]]

Ötzi wore a cloak made of woven grass{{efn|In the book ''Cookwise'' by Shirley Corriher, the point is made (in relation to cooking) that plant leaves have a waterproof, waxy [[cuticle]] which makes raindrops roll off, with the comment "it was interesting that the 5,000-year-old Alpine traveler&nbsp;... had a grass raincoat".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shirley O. Corriher |author-link=Shirley Corriher |title=Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking |publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-688-10229-6 |location=New York |page=312}}</ref>}} and a coat, a belt, a pair of leggings, a loincloth, and shoes, all made of leather of different skins. He also wore a bearskin cap with a leather chin strap. The shoes were waterproof and wide, seemingly designed for walking across the snow; they were constructed using bearskin for the soles, deer hide for the top panels, and a netting made of tree bark. Soft grass went around the foot and in the shoe and functioned like modern socks. The coat, belt, leggings and loincloth were constructed of vertical strips of leather sewn together with [[sinew]]. His belt had a pouch sewn to it that contained a cache of useful items: a scraper, a drill, a flint flake, a bone awl and a dried fungus (see [[#Tools and equipment]] below).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Belt and Pouch |url=http://www.iceman.it/en/node/275 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311083938/http://www.iceman.it/en/node/275 |archive-date=2009-03-11 |access-date=2016-04-23 |publisher=South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology}}</ref>

[[File:OtzishoesS1340065.jpg|thumb|left|A replica of Ötzi's shoe at the [[Bata Shoe Museum]]]]

The shoes have since been reproduced by a Czech academic, who said that "because the shoes are actually quite complex, I'm convinced that even 5,300 years ago, people had the equivalent of a [[Shoemaker|cobbler]] who made shoes for other people". The reproductions were found to constitute such excellent footwear that it was reported that a Czech company offered to purchase the rights to sell them.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krosnar |first=Katka |date=2005-07-17 |title=Now you can walk in footsteps of 5,000-year-old Iceman – wearing his boots |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1494238/Now-you-can-walk-in-footsteps-of-5000-year-old-Iceman-wearing-his-boots.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629175118/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1494238/Now-you-can-walk-in-footsteps-of-5000-year-old-Iceman-wearing-his-boots.html |archive-date=2011-06-29 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> However, a more recent hypothesis by British archaeologist [[Jacqui Wood]] is that Ötzi's shoes were actually the upper part of [[snowshoe]]s. According to this theory, the item currently interpreted as part of a backpack is actually the wood frame and netting of one snowshoe and animal hide to cover the face.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hammond, Norman |date=2005-02-21 |title=Iceman was wearing 'earliest snowshoes' |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/courtsocial/article1814891.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034417/http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/001167.html |archive-date=2014-11-29 |access-date=2013-11-24 |url-status=live |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>

The leather loincloth and hide coat were made from sheepskin. Genetic analysis showed that the sheep species was nearer to modern domestic European sheep than to wild sheep; the items were made from the skins of at least four animals. Part of the coat was made from a domesticated goat belonging to a mitochondrial [[haplogroup]] (a common female ancestor) that inhabits central Europe today. The coat was made from several animals from two different species and was stitched together using hides. The leggings were made from domesticated goat leather.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Netburn |first=Deborah |date=2016-08-18 |title=How Otzi the Iceman outfitted himself: Fur from brown bears and leather from roe deer |url=https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-otzi-iceman-garments-quiver-20160818-snap-story.html |access-date=2022-10-31 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> A similar set of 5,000-year-old leggings discovered in [[Schnidejoch]], [[Switzerland]], were made from goat leather as well.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bechtel |first=Dale |date=2008-08-21 |title=New details emerge about Neolithic age in Alps |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/new-details-emerge-about-neolithic-age-in-alps/1014380 |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=swissinfo.ch |language=en}}</ref>

Irish and Italian researchers were able to undertake an analysis of the mitochondrial DNA from six different items of the body's clothing and published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports. These showed that the shoelaces were made from the European genetic population of cattle. The quiver was made from wild [[roe deer]], the fur hat was made from a genetic lineage of [[brown bear]] which lives in the region today.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davis |first=Nicola |date=2016-08-30 |title=It becometh the iceman: clothing study reveals stylish secrets of leather-loving ancient |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/it-becometh-the-iceman-otzi-clothing-study-reveals-stylish-secrets-of-leather-loving-ancient |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830164637/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/it-becometh-the-iceman-otzi-clothing-study-reveals-stylish-secrets-of-leather-loving-ancient |archive-date=2016-08-30 |access-date=2016-08-30 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Romey |first=Kristin |date=18 August 2016 |title=Here's What the Iceman Was Wearing When He Died 5,300 Years Ago |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/otzi-iceman-european-alps-mummy-clothing-dna-leather-fur-archaeology |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819105927/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/otzi-iceman-european-alps-mummy-clothing-dna-leather-fur-archaeology/ |archive-date=2016-08-19 |access-date=2016-08-18 |magazine=[[National Geographic]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Sullivan |first=Niall J. |last2=Teasdale |first2=Matthew D. |last3=Mattiangeli |first3=Valeria |last4=Maixner |first4=Frank |last5=Pinhasi |first5=Ron |last6=Bradley |first6=Daniel G. |last7=Zink |first7=Albert |date=2016-08-18 |title=A whole mitochondria analysis of the Tyrolean Iceman's leather provides insights into the animal sources of Copper Age clothing |journal=[[Scientific Reports]] |language=en |volume=6 |pages=31279 |bibcode=2016NatSR...631279O |doi=10.1038/srep31279 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=4989873 |pmid=27537861}}</ref>