When fantasy meets science: An attempt to recreate the voice of Ötzi the “Iceman”

Francesco Avanzini; Piero Cosi; Rolando  Füstös; Andrea Sandi

doi:10.17469/O2103AISV000022

Authors

Francesco Avanzini ENT Department, General Hospital, Bolzano
Piero Cosi Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR (ISTCCNR), Padova
Rolando Füstös ENT Department, General Hospital, Bolzano
Andrea Sandi SINTAC Biomedical Engineering, Padova

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17469/O2103AISV000022

Keywords:

Ötzi, Vocal Tract, CT Scan

Abstract

Ötzi the Iceman’s, the mummy found some years ago on the top of the Similaun mountain, lived 5300 years ago, and obviously, we cannot say which language, which phonemes, or even which sounds could belong to him. In this work, still in its initial stage, a possible reconstruction of an “approximation” of Ötzi the Iceman’s voice, recreating the timbre or colour of his stone-age possible vowels will be described.