[SunkenCiv]

Otzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old mummified man uncovered in the Austrian Alps in 1991, bore at least 57 tattoos.

And he wound up getting killed by a rival gang when he got separated from his peeps. :')

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109463/posts?page=3

Altai Princess tattoo - posted by blam.

Body decoration/disfigurement has a very long history in numerous cultures and takes many forms...the study of which tells us something about the peoples that practised it. Perhaps the unadorned were once upon a time seen as primitive or barbarian?