Posted on 01/29/2015 7:56:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
By using an innovative non-invasive photographic technique, European researchers have managed to locate and map the extensive set of tattoos on the exquisitely preserved remains of Ötzi the Iceman. Remarkably, they even found a previously unknown tattoo on his ribcage.
Ötzi's frozen remains were discovered by two German tourists in the Ötzal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy in 1991. He lived around 3,300 BCE and represents Europe's oldest natural human mummy. Because he was so well preserved in ice, he has provided anthropologists with a slew of information about Copper Age (or Chalcolithic) humans.
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It's worth noting that Ötzi's tattoos were not applied by needles, but by making incisions into which charcoal was rubbed.
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America, the land of the free if you think exactly like ‘you’.
Otherwise it’s a visit from the Speech Nazi.
I don't necessarily care that you base an opinion on feeeelings, much as a liberal does, but I also reserve the right to LMAO at you for doing so. Woawoawoa feeeeeeeeelings....
Judging 5,000 year-old cultural behavior from a 21st century pulpit is blindingly stupid.
Not trying to offend but that is how I feel.
Like Notches on a gun? ............
Same here. Mark the sweet spots?
It is believed that the tatooed lines on his back are medical. He has an older injury to that area, and it is believed that those tattooed lines are an attempt to decrease pain.
It’s all barcodes. Aliens? Possibly> Cue the freak with the funny hair.
The news reader on the radio this morning said he was “56,000 years old.” He doesn’t look a day older than 5,000 years old.
Could be. Number of enemy killed would make sense.
Nasty!
61? Didn’t realize the NBA has been around that long.
Yes, I’m here. I got a lot of dates because of my tattoo. Girls would tell other girls about the tat on my ‘lower’ appendage. They’d say “His Tat says ‘shorty!’. I’d date them and see it actually said [Shorty’s Towing and Wrecking Service- *14-789-6655, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit Cards accepted.]
Yes. I saw that. I suppose you think I did not.
You could be a psychopath who goes about hurting others without feelings. Imagine having a child run over by a drunk Mexican and the judge lets him go on bail for $5000. Then the Mexican disappears and does not show up in court. So, are you going to feel angry? What rational unfeeling response do you have?
So, you think a human being has no feelings or rights to them, and only liberals believe they do.
Btw, an opinion about tatoos is hardly related to feelings. It seems more that your response to my opinion is an emotional response.
Like it or not, many have the same opinion. Oh well, I guess you will just have to cry about that. They keep silent but those thoughts exist.
Or he was just a mopey cutter.
Don’t forget, this guy was found with a broken off arrow in his back....................
I also have 12 tats, so I'm scum.
Yeah, get on with your bad selves. I expect better from Conservatives. Having feelings and emotions is one thing. Basing your opinions of people on them is entirely another. Saying that people with tats are scum or otherwise substandard is ignorant, plain and simple.
I never said that. YOU said that.
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