Tattoo history

1. NEW CHEMICAL ELEMENTS

Ink used today contain many chemical elements like Carbon, Oxygen, Iron, etc.

OTZI THE ICEMAN

'Ozti the Iceman' was an Alpian found mummified in the mountains. When he was found in 1991, he beared 57 tattoos. He's now around 5,300 years old.

2. LIFE ON EARTH

Without humans, there would be nobody to invent tattoos.

3. COLLECTIVE LEARNING

In different cultures, people used tattoos for different reason.

REason old societies got tattoos

• Pazyryk Culture: tattoos had magical significance
• Egypt: Found only on females associated with ritualistic practices
• Japan: Spirtual Significance
• China: associated with lower class, seen as mutilation of the body
• Spain: seen as a type of devil worshiping  

4. AGRICULTURE

Logwood, a heartwood extract is an example of how plants are used in the process of tattoos, as it is found in black ink.

5. MODERN REVOLUTION

The tattoo pen wasn't always the way it is now. In Otzi's time it was a healing procedure, rarely done. In 1891, Sam O'Reilly patent the first machine.

CONCLUSION

Over the time of 13.7 billion years, tattoos went from being only healing procedures, to body designs.