How Ötzi the Iceman really got his tattoos
An unusual experiment shows that the mummified man’s tattoos were poked, not sliced, into his skin
Tattooed lines on Ötzi the Iceman’s left wrist, like others on his body, were created by poking holes in the skin with a pointed, pigment-coated tool, researchers say.
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, M. Samadelli/Eurac, G. Staschitz