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What is the earliest women had tattoos in history?

Female mummies have been found to have tattoos, so is there any earlier evidence than this?

Posted - October 5, 2016
Tag : #tattoos

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  • 44660
    How would anyone know that? Maybe the ancient Chinese...but there is no evidence.
      October 5, 2016 9:40 AM MDT
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  • 2515
    Cave paintings? Vase paintings? Artifacts of some sort.
      October 5, 2016 10:47 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    I would say sometime in the stone age. Tattooing is one of those inventions that have been made again and again by primitive people all over the world. Like baking bread
      October 5, 2016 2:49 PM MDT
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  • The earliest evidence for female tattoos is the Siberian woman known as Ukok, who is thought to have lived c. 5th century BC.

    The male equivalent is much earlier - Ötzi, dating to about 5,000 years earlier.
      October 5, 2016 4:27 PM MDT
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  • 85
    Hard to tell when women adopted the practice but men were tattoed well over 5,000 years ago.
    The world's oldest known tattoos belong to Ötzi, the European Tyrolean Iceman who died and was buried beneath an Alpine glacier along the Austrian–Italian border around 3250 B.C.
    Ötzi had 61 tattoos across his body, including his left wrist, lower legs, lower back and torso.

      October 8, 2016 2:54 PM MDT
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  • 1326
    Tattooing existed in bible times. It was a practice of pagan nations in connection with their religion. For this reason God forbade the nation of Israel to imitate the pagans. (levíticus 19:28)
      October 23, 2016 11:18 PM MDT
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