Friday, 28 May 2021

These sharpened bird bones are the oldest tattooing tools ever discovered

These 3,000-year-old sharpened turkey bones are likely the oldest tattooing tools ever found. Archaeologists uncovered the tools at a historical Native American site in Fernvale, Tennessee. Years later, researchers from the Tennessee Division of Archaeology and colleagues analyzed the bones and determined that they are stick-and-poke tools. — Read the rest