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About the expert needed tag regarding the axe blade

Disclaimer: I have an archaeology degree but metals are not my specialty

I took a look at Talk:Ötzi/Archive 4#Was the axe cold forged? and yeah the IP address user is correct in their assessment. I found the first study of the axe, which said it had been produced using "extensive thermal annealing, probably due to several alternate cycles of cold working and thermal softening" (p.50-51). But sources published since then say the axe was cast and wasn't subject to any mechanical hardening after casting (see this 2014 source in Italian (p.72) (I machine translated it), and the 2017 source (p.2) on the source of the copper.

Let me know if you think my assessment is accurate. In a few days I will edit the paragraph citing the 2010 website for the haft, and the 2017 source (open access) for the axe and the copper source instead of a newspaper. Merytat3n (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good - thanks for your improvement! —Ganesha811 (talk) 03:08, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bacon

"It is believed that Ötzi most likely had a few slices of a dried, fatty meat, probably bacon, which came from a wild goat in South Tyrol, Italy."

Bacon is widely recognized as a pork product. Suggest everything after "fatty meat" be removed. 2603:8001:6400:7B0:8DF1:C55C:148E:C35F (talk) 06:47, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ötzi's "bacon" seems to have been made from wild goat, however. Although "bacon" is often used to mean cured meat from animals other than pigs, I think it is not particularly helpful in this context. Perhaps the words probably bacon could be removed. I suddenly feel hungry... Tewdar 09:14, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

In the Genetic analysis section, please link: BAM → Binary Alignment Map. -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 20:36, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for pointing this out. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 In the '''Genetic analysis''' section, please link:  BAM → [[Binary Alignment Map]].
 -- [[Special:Contributions/136.54.106.120|136.54.106.120]] ([[User talk:136.54.106.120|talk]]) 20:36, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
+:Done. Thanks for pointing this out. [[User:Dudley Miles|Dudley Miles]] ([[User talk:Dudley Miles|talk]]) 21:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)