where did tattooes come from?

Answer 1

Tattooing in prehistoric times
A tattoo on the right arm of a Scythian chieftain, whose mummy was discovered at Pazyryk, Russia. The tattoo was made more than 2,500 years ago.
A tattoo on the right arm of a Scythian chieftain, whose mummy was discovered at Pazyryk, Russia. The tattoo was made more than 2,500 years ago.

Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice since Neolithic times. "Ötzi the Iceman", dated circa 3300 BC, bearing 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys and numerous small parallel lines along the lumbar, legs and the ankles, exhibiting possible therapeutic tattoos (treatment of arthritis). Tarim Basin (West China, Xinjiang) revealed several tattooed mummies of a Western (Western Asian/European) physical type. Still relatively unknown (the only current publications in Western languages are those of J P. Mallory and V H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies, London, 2000), some of them could date from the end of the 2nd millennium BCE.

Tattooing in the ancient.

China
Tattooing has also been featured prominently in one of the Four Classic Novels in Chinese literature, Water Margin, in which at least three of the 108 characters

Egypt and India
Henna and Mehndi tattoos were popular in ancient India and ancient Egypt and still remain popular today in the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and North Africa.

Europe
Pre-Christian Germanic, Celtic and other central and northern European tribes were often heavily tattooed, according to surviving accounts. The Picts were famously tattooed (or scarified) with elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper for the blue tone) designs. Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54 BCE).

Japan
Tattooing for spiritual and decorative purposes in Japan is thought to extend back to at least the Jomon or paleolithic period (approximately 10,000 BCE) and was widespread during various periods for both the Japanese and the native Ainu. Chinese visitors observed and remarked on the tattoos in Japan (300 BCE).

Middle East
An archaic practice in the Middle East involved people cutting themselves and rubbing in ash during a period of mourning after an individual had died.

Samoa
In Samoa, the tradition of applying tattoo, or tatau, by hand has been unbroken for over two thousand years.

Reintroduction in the Western world

It was thought that many of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England were tattooed, but much of this was conjecture as the first recorded fact of royalty being tattooed was King Harold II (1022-1066).Harold Godwinson's body was identified by his mistress Edith Swanneck, on the battlefield at Hastings in 1066 by the words "Edith" and "England" tattooed on his chest. William of Poitiers recorded the battle and noted that Harold was stripped of all regalia and could not be identified by his face, only by his body markings.

Answer 2

I would say from certain Native tribes like the Maoris that tattooed their great warriors as a mark of respect and I am sure there would be Native American and African tribes as well.

Answer 3

From marks of status. Either highly revered status in some cultures (such as the Polinesians) or criminals in others (such as China and Japan).

Answer 4

Usually they come frmo a needle with ink in it :)

Answer 5

retards with pens