Monday, October 24, 2011
History of Tattoo
The scarification process now known as tattooing most likely goes back to at least the Neolithic age (the New Stone Age). Tattooing probably also has a prehistoric beginning. The tattoos frequently displayed by modern aborigines are thought to reflect skin designs from the Neolithic ancestors of modern Europeans. It is amazing to think these designs are thought to date back twenty millennia or more. The oldest verifiable example of tattooing goes back five thousand years to the frozen, mummified remains of the "Ice Man" of Central Europe, a frozen legacy in tattoo history. As with any historical topic there are assumptions interwoven with fact, but the
"Ice Man" is a factual example of the vast history of this art form.
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