Anatolian

The city lies just 20km to the north of the North Anatolian Fault Line.

And the researchers had doubts it would work, because the breeds involved—including Kangal, Boz, and Anatolian shepherds—had “been born and bred for thousands of years to protect livestock and not people,” Young says.

He lived on the Anatolian coast — now in Turkey but then a cradle of early Greek civilization — and was said to have acquired his unusual power by abandoning the gods.

The East Anatolian fault system, where the disaster occurred, is near where the Anatolian, Arabian and African tectonic plates come together.

Previous work suggests that Anatolians were in Europe at the time that Ötzi was alive.