Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Otzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BCE, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BCE have been discovered at Pazyryk Tattooed...

Know as the "Dayak", meaning "interior" or "inland" person, the variety of indigenous native tribes of Borneo have a tradition of tattooing that describes their fundamental identity as tribespeople, headhunters, warriors, and community members. Both the men and the women were tattooed, and for a variety of reasons. Dayak tattoo mythology All aspects of Dayak tatttoing showed a great reverence for ancestors, the departed spirits who...

The history of tattooing belongs to a great many peoples, and as the art travelled across the globe, the styles, methods and meanings were adapted to the various tribes which used the practise of tattooing within their culture. Presently, the art of the Maori Tribal Tattoos|Maori, Polynesian Tribal Tattoos|Polynesian, Samoan Tattoos|Samoans and mesoamerican peoples such as the Aztec are popular and are referred to as 'tribal' in the West, but...