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Dr. M’s 25 Days of Deep Sea Christmas: #8 Tattoo

Inserting ink into the skin for decorative purposes, identification, a rite of passage, fertility, protection, spirituality, commitment, and status has existed since the Neolithic.  The mummified Otzi the Iceman from the 4th or 5th millennium BCE 57 was covered with dots and lines across his lower body.  In 2008, the modern tattoo parlor is more [...]

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