Ancient Tattoo Tool Re-Discovered at WSU

30/04/2025 10 min Episodio 2

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Episode Synopsis

Details behind the art of ancient indigenous tattooing in North America have been largely lost over time, with colonization and cultural eraser to blame. So when Andrew Gillreath-Brown re-discovered of a thousands-of-years-old tattoo tool sitting in the archives at Washington State University, he knew this would help shed new light on indigenous tattoo history!Follow Tattoology on Instagram: www.instagram.com/tattoologypodContact: [email protected] used for this episode:https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2019/02/28/oldest-tattoo-tool-western-north-america-discovered/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X18307508?via%3Dihub https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-2000-year-old-tattoo-needles-are-oldest-found-western-north-america-180971602/