Do you have any tattoos? I do! Mummified skin suggests that tattooing has been done since the Neolithic times
I didn't know it went back that far! I dont have any but would get one if it looked cool?
Tattoos can vary so much! Ancient art and archaeological finds of potential tattoo tools suggest that tattooing could have been practiced in the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe
Thats cool I wonder what they got tattooed then? Maybe mammoths or something lol
It's possible! The oldest tattooed human skin was found on the body of an Otzi which is an Iceman from around 3370 to 3100 BC
Do you know what they used to make tattoos back then?
I'm not sure but tattooed mummies have been found in Mongolia, Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines, and the Andes, among others!
Cool, they probably had to do with some type of religious ritual back then.
mummies have been recovered from at least 49 archaeological sites, including locations in Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, Mongolia, western China, Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines and the Andes. These include Amunet, Priestess of the Goddess Hathor from ancient Egypt (c. 2134–1991 BC), multiple mummies from Siberia including the Pazyryk culture of Russia and from several cultures throughout Pre-Columbian South America.
Ancient and traditional practices.
Ancient and traditional practices China.
Cemeteries throughout the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang of western China) including the
History of tattooing
Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art and the archaeological record. Both ancient art and archaeological finds of possible tattoo tools suggest tattooing was practiced by the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe. However, direct evidence for tattooing on mummified human skin extends only to the 4th millennium BC. The oldest discovery of tattooed human skin to date is found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman, dating to between 3370 and 3100 BC. Other tattooed