What is the origin of tattoos?

tattooing has been eurasian practice @ least since around neolithic times. Ötzi iceman, dating fourth fifth millennium bc, found in Ötz valley in alps , had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots , lines on lower spine, behind left knee, , on right ankle.

these tattoos thought form of healing because of placement resembles acupuncture. other mummies bearing tattoos , dating end of second millennium bc have been discovered, such mummy of amunet ancient egypt , mummies @ pazyryk on ukok plateau.

pre-christian germanic, celtic , other central , northern european tribes heavily tattooed, according surviving accounts. picts famously tattooed (or scarified) elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper blue tone) designs. julius caesar described these tattoos in book v of gallic wars (54 bc).

tattooing in japan thought go paleolithic era, ten thousand years ago.[citation needed] various other cultures have had own tattoo traditions, ranging rubbing cuts , other wounds ashes, hand-pricking skin insert dyes.
tattooing in western world today has origins in polynesia, , in discovery of tatau eighteenth century explorers. polynesian practice became popular among european sailors, before spreading western societies generally....

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what origin of tattoos? where, when, , why did start?

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