Expository Essay on Tattoos
Expository Essay Past and Present of Tattoos
“The word tattoo reportedly is derived from the Tahitian word “tatu.” (Walker 1999 -2010 p. 1). The main idea of this paper is to identify where tattoos have gone wrong through culture over the years of mankind. By justifying the background and history of tattoos with their meaning and their original culture to help identify where society has disassociated the true meaning of cultural acceptance and gave way to fear. The earliest suggestions of tattoos on bodies of Iceman in random places were for therapeutic reasons. From Iceman to modern man and all through the years in between somewhere down the road mankind has disassociated the true meaning and definition of tattoos to what they want to believe. Mankind has evolved tenfold over the years to overcome perils such as slavery, equal rights for woman, and the equal rights movement of the 1960s; but when concerning tattoos it is a whole new world. While society has associated tattoos with gangs and does not see them for what they symbolize, modern day society has an evolved dislike for tattoos.
Archeological digs have discovered small bronze implements identified as tattooing tools discovered at the town site of Gurob in Northern Egypt in c. 1450 B.C. The earliest evidence of tattoos was always thought to be with the Egyptians according to scholars and historians. However, in 1991 along the Italian-Austrian border an Iceman found with tattoos on his body that pushed the original thought of tattoos back beyond original belief. The carbon date on the body is believed to be around 5,200 years old (Lineberry, 2007). This iceman with others found makes the early Egyptians the second earliest group of individuals found with tattoos on their bodies. Found in the Similaun Glacier of the Alps in 1991 an Iceman named “Oetzi” was found with 57 tattoos. Oetzi is suggested to be around 5,300 years old and a Tyrolean Iceman mummy. His tattoos, however, is what makes
“The word tattoo reportedly is derived from the Tahitian word “tatu.” (Walker 1999 -2010 p. 1). The main idea of this paper is to identify where tattoos have gone wrong through culture over the years of mankind. By justifying the background and history of tattoos with their meaning and their original culture to help identify where society has disassociated the true meaning of cultural acceptance and gave way to fear. The earliest suggestions of tattoos on bodies of Iceman in random places were for therapeutic reasons. From Iceman to modern man and all through the years in between somewhere down the road mankind has disassociated the true meaning and definition of tattoos to what they want to believe. Mankind has evolved tenfold over the years to overcome perils such as slavery, equal rights for woman, and the equal rights movement of the 1960s; but when concerning tattoos it is a whole new world. While society has associated tattoos with gangs and does not see them for what they symbolize, modern day society has an evolved dislike for tattoos.
Archeological digs have discovered small bronze implements identified as tattooing tools discovered at the town site of Gurob in Northern Egypt in c. 1450 B.C. The earliest evidence of tattoos was always thought to be with the Egyptians according to scholars and historians. However, in 1991 along the Italian-Austrian border an Iceman found with tattoos on his body that pushed the original thought of tattoos back beyond original belief. The carbon date on the body is believed to be around 5,200 years old (Lineberry, 2007). This iceman with others found makes the early Egyptians the second earliest group of individuals found with tattoos on their bodies. Found in the Similaun Glacier of the Alps in 1991 an Iceman named “Oetzi” was found with 57 tattoos. Oetzi is suggested to be around 5,300 years old and a Tyrolean Iceman mummy. His tattoos, however, is what makes