How and why Ötzi, perhaps the world's most studied corpse, got the body art has long been a source of fascination
Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 tattoos inked all over his body.How and why Ötzi, perhaps the world's most studied corpse, got the body art has long been a source of fascination. Initial analysis suggested the tattoos were incised with a blade and then impregnated with black pigment.
'Once we all put our heads together, we come up with a lot better and more informed hypothesis about how these things work,' he said.The 2016 study suggests that tattoos are a long-standing and widespread cultural practice, with different means of permanently inserting pigments beneath the skin.
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