In the summer of 2017, Washington State University Ph.D. candidate Andrew Gillreath-Brown inventoried 64 museum boxes full of dusty artifacts. He and a peer were charged with reorganizing the Turkey ...

A 2,000-year-old wooden implement with black-tipped cactus spines is now the oldest example of a tattoo tool in western North America, a discovery that’s shedding important new light on this ancient ...

With little to no information in the archaeological record regarding tattoos, placing their origin has proven difficult. What we do know is that tattooing as an art form, and a form of expression, has ...

Researchers rediscovered four tattooing tools from Tongatapu island in Tonga years after they were thought to be lost. Radiocarbondating revealed that the tools are actually 2,700 years old, making ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists from Washington State University have discovered the oldest known tattooing tool in western North America. The tool, with a handle of skunkbush and a cactus-spine point, ...

The oldest tattooing tool in western North America, a 2,000-year-old pair of cactus needles with dye-stained tips, has been discovered in Utah. The tool was used for applying tattoos, shedding light ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered the oldest tattooing artefact which is around 2,000 years old. With a handle of skunkbush and a cactus-spine end, the tool was made around 2,000 years ago by ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest tattooing artifact in western North America. The tool was made around 2,000 years ago by the Ancestral Pueblo people of the Basketmaker II period in what is ...