Tattoos in the Ancient World - The Archaeology of Tattooing | Getting a Tattoo for 30,000 Subs
Thanks so much for 30,000 subscribers! To celebrate, I went and got a tattoo of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and spoke with Aaron Deter-Wolf all about the archaeology of tattooing.
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The oldest evidence we have of preserved tattoos on human skin is from 5200 years ago on Ötzi the Iceman, who lived during the Copper Age sometime between 3350-3100 BCE. I’m planning a whole video on Ötzi himself in the future, but for context, Ötzi was discovered by hikers in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps along the border between Austria and Italy. Ötzi has a total of 61 tattoos scattered across his back, legs, arm and chest. Most are clusters lines, apart from crosses located on the back of his right knee and his right ankle.
Before Otzi was declared the oldest person known to have tattoos, the mummified remains of a man belonging to the South American Chinchorro culture who had a thin moustache-type tattoo on his upper lip was another candidate for this top spot. The Chinchorro culture was a fishing society that existed before the invention of pottery in what is today the coastal regions of Chile and southern Peru between around 7000 and 1100 BCE. The Chinchorro people also practised deliberate mummification very early - because you can have both deliberate and natural mummification happen all over the world, and they are actually the oldest known human mummies to date!
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The World's Oldest Tattoos by Aaron Deter-Wolf and Benoît Robitaille
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Samadelli, M., Melis, M., Miccoli, M., Vigl, E. E., & Zink, A. R. (2015). Complete mapping of the tattoos of the 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 16(5), 753-758. doi:10.1016/j.culher.2014.12.005
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Thanks again to Aaron Deter-Wolf for joining me on this video! Don't forget to check out his book, Ancient Ink amzn.to/3Ows51v Also if you want to learn about his work with experimental archaeology on ancient tattooing methods, be sure to watch this presentation: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2GMmbmKmciag5s.html
@JohnSaxon-vw5vi
Жыл бұрын
Just found your amazing channel just before 30k subscribers glad I was able to help you get to 30k subscribers congrats on that please keep safe and healthy and prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnSaxon-vw5vi That's so sweet, John! Thank you for those kind words and your support. Here's to the next 30k!
@JohnSaxon-vw5vi
Жыл бұрын
@@DigItWithRaven no problem 😉 and I will be there for you too when you get there
So it's 1/30,000th my fault you're getting ink? Cool!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
You are!! My mother blames you 😂
@MisfitKotLD
Жыл бұрын
I'll take that blame with pride, but partner and I sport ink we didn't get until our forties.
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
@@MisfitKotLD You gotta make sure it's worth it!
@MisfitKotLD
Жыл бұрын
@@DigItWithRaven Absolutely, but I have three more planned, a full sleeve, an Otep song lyric, and a cartouche of R2-D2 and C-3PO in homage of our favorite fictional, bad archaeologist.
@MisfitKotLD
Жыл бұрын
Also, I love the ink you just got. It's kickass!
Wow! You are marvelous and a marvelous story teller. It is satisfying to see you putting yourself in this wonderful story, of the history of tattooing. Your tattoo is perfect! I am glad to hear that you are writing a book; I am sure that it will be a success. Thank you for sharing!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Fingers crossed for the book, it’s going to be a lot of work but so worth it!! ☺️
love the tattoo and the meaning! I got one on my hand of an ancient Filipino scorpion to celebrate my family's heritage and it was cool to have some mention of that in the video! Congrats on all the hard work!
This channel's really good, Stef Milo brought me here and I'm chomping through the back catalogue
That scythian tattoo is my tribe's tattoo but most people forget that love my scythian ancestors and Amazon warrior mothers
Congrats on 30k! The tattoo is awseome!
A very sincere congratulations to you on hitting 30k subs! I hope that number only continues to climb higher!
Awesome, congrats on 30k!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thank youuuu!! 🎉
Historyrelated tattoos are the best, I've got at least three myself. Thanks for the book tip and a really good episode. The tattoo looks awsome on you and you got yourself a new subscriber :)
I'm glad to be a tiny part (1/30000) of the reason you did this, you look so happy, and you deserve it!
Love your work.
Congratulations Raven! Love the tattoo!!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!!
Dude I loved this video and your tattoo is beautiful. I went down a rabbit hole of internet research about the first recorded tattoo last month!! BUT I didn't learn as much as I did watching this. This was so in depth and I really enjoyed the interview with an expert! Now I want that book....aaaand another 10 tattoos! Thank you so much for making this video and congratulations on your new forever-art!
That’s the style I want my hieroglyphics to be tattooed in! It looks so good Raven!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
That has to be one of the coolest tattoos I've ever seen! Can't wait for you to hit 100k next 😜
@pavelandreev4727
Жыл бұрын
I know very little of tattoo art but, for me, in her case it is the back story that makes this one absolutely cool.
It is a beautiful tattoo and a great reason to get one. I am still only studying archaeology, but tattoos seem very common amoung my peers and people in the field, so I can't imagine it causing any problems. Don't listen to critics. It means something important to you, and seems well worth it. Congratulations and continue to live your dreams and inspire us!
Raven, that tattoo is awesome! I love it. When we look at tattoos throughout history, we understand a lot of them as having meaning culturally. But I wonder, like in our culture today, if someone, thousands of years ago, woke up one morning with a splitting headache and thought, "Oh no! I've gone and got a crocodile tattooed on my butt! Mum's gonna kill me!" I would have loved to have been a hieroglyph on the wall that day. 😄 Once again, a huge congratulations on reaching 30,000 subscribers. So richly deserved. 😄🎉🏆
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!! Also, oh man, imagine if that happened! I'm sure there were some mistake tattoos throughout history, but maybe not to the same extent as today
'Come with me as I get a tattoo! This video contains images of human remains!' HOLD UP haha
Cool tattoo Raven looks great
Congratulations on 30K and the new ink!!! 👍 My first and only tattoo is a Khepri inspired scarab. I get some hilarious reactions when people ask me what it is and I tell them it's a dung beetle.
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!! And ahhh fun! Sounds like a great tatt 🪲
@pattheplanter
Жыл бұрын
Without them we would be neck deep in...
Congratulations! Success and happiness. In dirt we trust. Beautiful tattoo.
Too funny, I've been planning on getting "Triumphant in Peace" in hieroglyphs tattooed soon
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
No way!! That’s so cool
Nice tattoo, looks great! 😊
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! Glad you like it
I would have never considered dstretch for this application but I love that! We were using it in my field school and a colleague of mine uses it a lot for her hiking photos!
Congrats on 30K and I'm helping you towards 40K! Stefan Milo sent me.
I just recently got my first tattoo, also inspired by Ancient Egypt (or rather, Victorian art that was inspired by Ancient Egypt). It's an Ouroboros from the Egyptian Gate of Sheffield General Cemetery, a place that's meaningful in my journey to archaeology and a beautiful cemetery to boot. Hoping for many more to come, I have planned to get some inspired by both Ötzi and the Gebelein mummies, and a myriad of other designs
Great video, great tattoo! I havn't got any, but if I do have one one day it needs to be meaningful like this. I just wish you would hold your arm still there at the end so we could actually look at it tho!! 😂 Excited!
Super nice tattoo, its hard to line stuff up so it looks straight when your arm is in the right place when you expect it to be straight, but he nailed it! So, as someone with a full sleeve, I can say there are definitely places on your arm that just feel *weird* when they go over it, but I've never been able to take a nap while getting any work done. :)
There are many medicinal herbs that have traditionally been used by scarifying, cutting or otherwise puncturing the skin and then applying the herb. Some apparently non-serious diseases, such as Ectadiopsis oblongifolia root powder rubbed into cuts on the forehead vs. headache, but also at joints vs. rheumatism. I could see tattooing with ink mixed with herbs being used in the same way.
I'm imaging an Egyptian going to their local Ikea getting their contemporary "Live, Love, Laugh" hung on their tomb wall, "As you love to live, and hate to pass on". Which i love btw 😂
@DigItWithRaven
11 ай бұрын
😂 This was on a lot of walls! It's part of something call the 'appeal to the living' that was part of their funerary texts. Wonder if it got old just like those LLL posters haha
Very informative, goes to show how universal this tattooing practice is and was, .. how it connects across time and cultures. Also congrats @ 30k and that awesome tattoo! Love your energy and style. Are you going to do more tattoos with each milestone? If so, what will you look like when you hit 1M subs?? 😶
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
So glad you liked it! I loved this topic for a video simply because of how universal it is and how it speaks to humanity across history. I'd like to try to do something different for each new milestone, and I think my mother would also appreciate it if I don't get a bunch of tattoos either 😂
@pattheplanter
Жыл бұрын
@@DigItWithRaven How would your mum feel about you building the Ishtar Gate for your front door? Or just a liiiiittle pyramid?
lovely video! I just got my first ink since the pandemic - symbols dedicated to Nergal ^^
Tempted to get that 'I love soup' hieroglyphic tattoo now
I am convinced that the first tattoo was made how I got my first tattoo. Camping and messing with ash and charcoal with an open wound. Love your tattoo!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
That could very likely have been a thing! Always wild to think about the first person to happen upon something
@DakiniDream
Жыл бұрын
Probably, many of us got small tattoos this way. So i can well imagine this scenario. 😉
Awesome! That's actually a great and stealable tat idea. I hope you don't mind. :)
yes!!! im so happy to hear about the chinchorro culture on this channel. it's my favourite thing in archaeology ever
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
I just learned about the Chinchorro culture for this video and I will DEFINITELY be looking into them more - maybe even making a video soon
@queenofastora
Жыл бұрын
@@DigItWithRaven i'm only 18 and live on the opposite side of the world but my dream is to become the absolute best expert on the chinchorro culture in the entire world. they cared sooo much for their dead it really is incredible
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
@@queenofastora I love that! Good luck on you Chinchorro adventure :)
That Athenian thing cracks me up. "we kicked your ass, so now we will tattoo our logo on your face"
Hey Raven- good video and it’s very interesting. I would make sure to mention that the term barbaric came from the root name Barbados and high possibility its central root comes from barbar, which has Sumerian in origins meaning foreigner. Greeks called foreigners barbars/barbarians because they didn’t think foreigners were possibly capable of learning Ancient Greek. It was said they sounded like babbling - which is reminiscent of baba/barbar. It only received negative connotations once Athens opened the realm of slavery and slave owners to more than just noble Athenians. The stigma and negativity of barbarism increased when the Roman Empire expanded and encountered Germanic clans, Vikings, Celts, Mongolians, and couldn’t overpower or reroute those tribes. Romans usually described them as lesser and unable to be proper Roman citizens- and their actions of fighting were not honorable, and thus the term of Barbaric/Barbarianism was coined of that sense. I would simply be aware before tying it to tattoos!
This is incredible! Thank you so much for your videos. 4:10 and that's a disgracefull level of idiocy.
I'd have a tattoo (at least one) if I could pick something I really want on me forever. I've never been able to really decide that, though. I also do my own drawing, so...Even finding a tattoo artist who could copy my work flawlessly is tricky.
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
It was SO hard deciding for me, and I waited 10 years to make sure I really wanted it and scoured the internet for the right artist, then had to wait forever until their books were open and they chose to do my piece. If you ever find something you might want, I really recommend getting an Inkbox tester and playing around with placement and size, etc. That really helped me
To be fair, Soup is rad. Also, great vidya.
This has me adding a tattoo idea to my sleeve theme. I’m an armchair historian of Mormonism and post 1847 Utah history, and I am slowly working on inking my arm with Utah and Mormon references. So far I have a Masonic beehive with the word Deseret written in the Deseret alphabet, and a blue dot on the hand between thumb and index finger that the gay population of Utah used to identify themselves with as a way to find others like them. Part of me now wants to get Joseph Smith’s bastardization of the god Min on an ancient Egyptian funerary text that he crafted the “Book of Abraham” from. But I also have a Joseph Smith sphinx idea based on an actual JS sphinx here in Salt Lake City, so I’d have to really think about that one because that’s a lot of Egyptian for an American religion lol
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Nice Noah Gundersen shirt. 👍
@DigItWithRaven
4 күн бұрын
He's one of my faves!
Oh!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
A good 'Oh!' I hope 😂
Please show us the finished tattoo.
could you tell us historical place sketching
Im planning on getting a Pazyryk style tattoo but instead of the animals they used. Since I’m ethnically Frisian and Frisii artifacts have lots of shamanic style art of a one eyed man (Woden) and shamans becoming animals, nominally wolves. I would get a Pazyryk style one eyed wolf with various other animals symbolizing my father, grandfather, great grandfather. I wanted a chain of my ancestry running down my arm and continue down my leg, and it’s useful for me since my family can trace our roots back to 15th century Friesland.
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Isnt first word, mri (love), always spelled with the "person pointing towards his mouth glyph" like the word msDi (hate)? Regardless if there is a small error it still looks bad ass.
@DigItWithRaven
10 ай бұрын
He is pointing towards his mouth ☺
@akbal7033
10 ай бұрын
Its absent from the first word.@@DigItWithRaven
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Looks cool. It better not be one of those translations where it means different in original language, like those Chinese tattoos haha. I like piercing better. hehe.
"I'm getting an ancient tattoo" - I hope that you're getting a new one, not going out flaying bogmen.... 🤣🤣
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Omg 😳 😅
@DocBree13
9 ай бұрын
😂😂
Scotland is the birthplace of tattoos
Raven, I heard of a guy tattooed with Star Wars characters. You should have seen the Luke on his face. Personally, my own take on tattoos is...graffiti. The kind that defaces natural and cultural landmarks. Plus, tattoos generally do not age well. (Lots of old people with misshapen, unidentifiable tattoos.) I DO however, joyously celebrate your 30,000 subscribers!
@DigItWithRaven
Жыл бұрын
Ba-dum tssss 🥁 that’s a good one! I knew I couldn’t win them all with the tatt but I am a sunscreen queen so will hopefully help with the ageing 🤞🏼
@classicslover
Жыл бұрын
@@DigItWithRaven We'll have to wait and see about the aging...since you still look like you JUST finished being a teenager.OH! Right! I guess that DOES prove your point! Curious though...what did you MOM say? = )
nothing against meaningful tattoos , as for myself , I wear scars and burns , life signature on my flesh of events who shaped me
Mehhh… let’s just let him have tattoos.. not say why
No they haven't and not in Europe
Hardly original is it 😂
Nothing denotes classiness more than a tramp stamp on ya lower back ,
I always feel so sorry for people with tattoos. When it gets cold here in the winter, I cover up with thick warm clothes. People with tattoos must continue wearing tee shirts and shorts in order to show them off.
Ick.
Please don't get one... you are a beautiful girl, don't destroy your body.
@YrnehLrak
Жыл бұрын
Theres that stigma 🤣
this is so fascinating Raven! Thank you for always teaching us!🤍 congrats on 30k! every one is deserved!