Vintage Tattoos

Jun 17, 2009 12 comments

The practice of tattooing is older than you thought. According to Wikipedia:

Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times. An Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from Ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau.

The following pictures aren’t from the Neolithic age, of course, but don’t be surprised if you see your great great grandfather here.

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Comments

  1. Simply amazing :]

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  2. These are so fascinating! It never occurred to me to think about old photos of tattoos.

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  3. love it<3 so artsy and beautiful.

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  4. It is fabulous!!! BUT I DON'T GONNA GET ONE OF THOSE NEVER IT HURTS A LOT ...

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  5. I hope to some day look half as beautiful as these people<3

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  6. note in a few of the pictures, the tattoo guns are very modern...

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  7. Tattoo MACHINES, NOT Guns.....

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