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Hi I’m Rick Wyckoff and you can check out our website at avatart2.com and I am here
on behalf of Expert Village.com talking about the history of tattooing. Well the history
of tattooing goes back farther than human memory. Humans have been tattooing each other
from the very beginnings since we have been cooking food with fire. The first human I
guess that they have ever found that was tattooed was the iceman that they found in the Italian
Alps. They are speculating they were for medicinal purposes, to alleviate back pain just because
of the strategic location. Shortly after that, the same year they found a woman in Siberia
that was heavily tattooed, a high priest as apparently, and she was also buried in ice
and they recently uncovered her because of global warming or whatever. She had elaborately
tattooed arms and legs mostly with zoomorphic animal designs probably having something to
do with an ancient religion. But we do know from other historical writings that tattooing
has been practiced all over the world by every culture even in modern time eras. There are
aboriginal people still practicing the same type of tattooing that was being done back
then. We have a modern version of that same process that we use; electricity and machines
to do it, but I guess the idea and the feeling of it is still the same that it was in ancient
times. The same desire to decorate is present in modern times as it was in ancient times.
For a variety of different reasons to memorialize somebody who has passed or to beautify for
purely aesthetic reasons, anyway the tool has been used to fulfill a variety of different
human needs over the course of our human history.