1. History - body piercing
(About Piercing/PIERCING)

History - body piercing   Body adornment has only recently become a subject of serious scholarly research by archaeologists, who have been hampered in studying body piercing by a sparsity of primary ...

2. About Body piercing
(About Piercing/PIERCING)

... word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. While the history of body piercing is obscured by a lack of scholarly reference ...

3. Negative associations
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... tear representing the death of a friend. At the same time, members of the U.S. military have an equally well established and longstanding history of tattooing to indicate military units, battles, kills, ...

4. History
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

   History   Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times. Otzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Otz valley in the ...

5. Tattoo Techniques - East vs West
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... in the late 1800s, this device has changed little in the history of Western tattooing. A solid needle is moved via motor up and down in a metal tube that is dipped into a cup of ink to provide the staining ...

6. Koi Tattoos
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

... elements of Japanese culture, koi have their roots in Chinese culture and were absorbed into the history and myths of Japan many thousand years ago. koi tattooThe ancestors of these colorful fish ...

7. A Brief History of Tattoos
(About Tattoos/About Tattoos)

From ancient tattoos to Modern Primitives Throughout the history of tattoos and its practice the art of driving ink under the skin with sharp implements is common among almost all cultures. Tattoos ...