The History of Tattoos

Tattoos have a long history that, at least since the discovery of Otzi's clear, for the about 5300 year old glacier mummy with numerous signs on the body. Where exactly, but tattoos are and where they have been primarily developed, can not be accurately determined. Since ancient times tattoos with the culture and life of the people firmly.

While in Polynesia manner marriageable women were identified, and these men rose to the rank of the young, culture is different from the purpose of tattoos to culture. Tattoos came after about 2000 BC to China to Greece, where they were used to communicate among spies can. When they reached the Japanese room, they were used especially for ritual and spiritual purposes. In Borneo tattoos, however, serves to honor heroic warriors, and came here to with respect to a person with tattooed the palm so they knew that it had killed with that very hand to another warrior.

For the proliferation of tattoos in Europe and the Western world among all was Captain Cook, came up with a tattooed islanders from Tahiti by one of his trips and presents him as a kind of attraction. People admired his body and wanted to beautify their bodies now. More and more sailors began to get tattooed, and more and more tattoo shops originated first in the ports of the world. The treatment was present initially primitive and very painful. Colored pencils were beaten with a hammer in the skin and caused the side for so many infections.

After a London named Samuel O'Reilly , the first electric tattoo machine invented in 1891, experienced a boom tattoos. The jump-off was now much cheaper and faster, and the machine has changed in spite of their age from the actual construction is not great since then. An absolute breakthrough came in the late 60's, when the decorations in magazines and on television advertised and were made socially acceptable. Shall bear statistically every second citizen of the United States at least one tattoo, and the amount of original images is incalculable.