Oldest Known Tattoos Found On Oetzi, The Iceman
Dec 23, 2015 12:11:29 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Dec 23, 2015 12:11:29 GMT -6
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So apparently everyone and their brother sporting tattoo's from tramp stamp's to hearts on their hand isn't a fad anymore tattoo's have been around for 1000's of years. And you thought you were the first on the block to sport a tattoo over the crack of your ass like it was something new. Here is a guy with 61 tattoo's that's over 5000 years old. Whats old is new, real old, not so new.
I think we need a board of tramp stamp photos.. lol
"The mummy boasts tattoos grouped across 19 body parts. Earlier this year, Marco Samadelli and colleagues from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Italy, spotted a new tattoo on the mummified body, bringing the total count of the Iceman's skin markings up to 61.
Published in the February 2016 edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the research reveals how an error in reading radiocarbon data wrongly attributed the record to an unidentified South American mummy.
The mummy, sporting dotted mustache-like markings across the upper lip, was one of 96 bodies recovered in 1983 from El Morro, Chile. Researchers identified the naturally mummified remains as belonging to a Chinchorro male who died between 35 - 40 years of age.
They named the mummy "Mo-1 T28 C22."
The mustache-like tattoo simply consisted of eight black dots across the upper lip to the left side of the nose and four dots to the right side.
The South American mummy belonged to the Chinchorro, a preceramic fishing society that lived in the coastal regions of southern Peru and Chile between 9,000 and 3,100 years ago. Their burials feature both natural and artificial mummification, making them the oldest known human mummies.
The reported age of the mummy was around 4000 B.C., making his dotted tattoos the oldest known.
But while radiocarbon dates for Oetzi have been extensively carried out, confirming the Iceman died between 3370 and 3100 B.C., the age of the Chinchorro mummy comes from a series of errors reading the radiocarbon data."
Published in the February 2016 edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the research reveals how an error in reading radiocarbon data wrongly attributed the record to an unidentified South American mummy.
The mummy, sporting dotted mustache-like markings across the upper lip, was one of 96 bodies recovered in 1983 from El Morro, Chile. Researchers identified the naturally mummified remains as belonging to a Chinchorro male who died between 35 - 40 years of age.
They named the mummy "Mo-1 T28 C22."
The mustache-like tattoo simply consisted of eight black dots across the upper lip to the left side of the nose and four dots to the right side.
The South American mummy belonged to the Chinchorro, a preceramic fishing society that lived in the coastal regions of southern Peru and Chile between 9,000 and 3,100 years ago. Their burials feature both natural and artificial mummification, making them the oldest known human mummies.
The reported age of the mummy was around 4000 B.C., making his dotted tattoos the oldest known.
But while radiocarbon dates for Oetzi have been extensively carried out, confirming the Iceman died between 3370 and 3100 B.C., the age of the Chinchorro mummy comes from a series of errors reading the radiocarbon data."
I think we need a board of tramp stamp photos.. lol
