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Ötzi the Ice Man lived around 5,300 years ago. The oldest human mummy, discovered by hikers in the Alps in the 1990s, scientists analysed the stomach contents of the alpine traveller, and discovered what the last meal he ate was.

In this video, I reconstruct his last meal and try it out for myself, as well as create my own interpretation of what may have been prehistorically plausible.

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