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World's Oldest Tattoo Written In Soot
ewenc writes "A series of tattoos belonging to Otzi the 5300 year-old Tyrolean Iceman are made of soot, reports New Scientist. Mountain climbers discovered Otzi's mummified body in the Austrian-Italian alps in 1991. What's left of his skin was littered with simple cross and line markings. Electron microscopy and spectroscopy now show that Otzi's tats are made of double-bonded carbon indicative of soot, as well as silicate crystals that probably came from rocks surrounding a fire pit."
Maybe they we burned in with hot rock edges?
What is the first post ever on slashdot? Can someone point to it or repost it?
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?color=green&index=1&view=stories&fhfilter=&duration=-1&startdate=19691231
Plenty from Dec. 31st, 1969!
A tramp stamp.
they had white-trash 5300 years ago
I wonder if there were any bucky balls or carbon nanotubes in that soot?
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
All comments from before 1999/01/01 have been deleted. The first post on 1999/01/01, still in the archive is; Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 1999, @05:15PM (#2049871) I agree, that really boiled my blood. I saw the new layout this morning, I thought it was pretty damn cool looking.
was the first hardcore Tyrolean... i was wondering where my mean streak came from. Awesome!
Skill is when luck becomes a habit.
Clothing would have obscured most of the designs, which are of crosses and bands of lines. Some are located near acupuncture points.
Some of the tattoos are near acupuncture areas. Not only were our ancestors playing bone flutes 35,000 years ago, but were also doing primitive medicine 5300 years ago. (Note homeopathic)
To me that is just amazing.
.. That he only intended getting three, but there was a language barrier between himself and the tattooist. he would have stopped more marks being made but he later fell asleep during the proceedure
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This could just as easily have been an elite university fraternity hazing incident. I think Skull and Bones goes back about 5300 years or so.
Anthropolgists will wonder what he was replying to for ages...
it is still called a tramp stamp?
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What's left of his skin was littered with simple cross and line markings.
... upon closer inspection the scientists determined this to be Chinese writing which says "Forever Protector of Old Ladies". Work to locate the man's Facebook profile and collection of popped collar shirts is continuing.
Now back to you in the studio, Dave.
and the Iceman probably had frosty piss
rewriting history since 2109
here's the first archived post, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/01/01/012000&tid=95
slashdot was started in Sept 1997 though. Site called "chips and dips" preceded it, that started in July of 1997
This is a practice that is probably still going on to these days.
My mum, who is from the Middle East and in her early 70s has had self-applied tattoos made out of soot since she was a teenager.
They're not like the tattoos one would be used to, but are just simple and crude symbols, one of them a cross. I am sure this is a practice still in many countries, especially 3rd world countries.
Explain plz? (Hint: It's not funny, so maybe you were going for insightful?)
You can find some high quality images at http://iceman.eurac.edu/. You can see the whole body of Oetzi down to millimetric detail. You can also compare images taken with white light to images taken with a special UV light.
As a little side note: I live only about 30 km from the Oetzi museum where the mummy is kept. But whenever I went by the museum, people were lined up in an incredibly long queue in front of the entrance, so I haven't actually seen "the real thing" yet.
While I admire artistic tattoos, I probably won't get one for myself. The idea of something on my skin that is forever, but is perhaps not looking good or cool forever repels me.
But when I was a kid, I accidentally tattooed myself, atleast with one dot of ink :-)
It was in arts education in school. We did calligraphy with old fashioned dip pens. I had the habit then to gnaw on all my writing utensils like pencils, pens etc. So I did that with my dip pen too. Something fell on the floor, I bent down to get it and ...ouch... I had the tip of the nib in my thigh. It's still a small greenish dot after 30 years.
It's probably a dupe. Or else it will be slashdotted by everyone going to view it.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
I was expecting it to be titled "first post!"...
We live, as we dream -- alone....
One would assume initially he's being unsettled by the new layout as he elaborates further on it, appearantly referencing to the first sentence.
But after closer analysis (reading it twice), the elaboration is a contradiction if he's speaking in a figurative speech. ("that boiled my blood; I thought it was damn cool looking.") unless, back in 1999, the boiling of blood would be a favourative state of being that is "cool".
To me, it seems the boiling of his blood is thus to be taken literally and the article could be about a DIY-project which could result in blood being boiled due to possible high pressure, dating back to prerecorded history.
I think it's safe to assume that the first poster on slashdot forgot to build his own pressure-suit making his blood boil and so agreeing with a poster who made the notion to take this into account. A pressure-suit of his time would be important to be though of attempting a simular endeavour which is communicated in the collaborative context, while expressing out his appreciation for the new environment which started the historical record for slashdot.
I propose the honouring of "Anonymous Coward" and to make a historical figure out of him. (record shows, in 1999, female presence was neglectable and the often found '18/F' notion was not, as priorly assumed, an indication of age and sex. So the assumpsion "Anonymous Coward" was a male has a 99% probability.)
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
The Wayback Machine could probably of some help there, if only it wasn't suffering from "Data Retrieval Failure".
You just got troll'd!
Actually I found that. The earliest comment is from "Jan 09 1998" and reads: "Well, I just tested this modified patch on my NT 4.0sp3 machine. It's still standing."
What do I win?
You just got troll'd!
Female presence was "neglectable"?
Are we still being neglected?
Carol (token female presence)
On slashdot? In 1999? yes...
This makes me think of this one quote "A *real* girl?" Internet vs Real world
My point is the word should have been "negligible". ;)
Yes we female techies form a negligible presence - but we never like to be neglected.
Carol
The nickname of the mummy is Oetzi, because it was found at the upper end of the Oetztal (Oetz valley). I know that many Americans ignore german umlauts and write an o instead of an ö (native speakers use 'oe', if no umlauts are possible), but in this case it's not even an umlaut. The little town which gives the valley its name is called Oetz with an oe, not an ö.
I knew it was something I was doing wrong....
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
We male techies are endeavoring to increase the number of women on Slashdot by taking all female techies seriously and respectfully. Your opinions are a vital and necessary part of the Slashdot commmunity.
BTW, whatcha wearin?
Around the Campfire and no paper available?
The images of the the wrist appeared to look like ligiture marks. Maybe representing that he was a slave or criminal, "bound" at one time in his life.
On a lighter note, maybe the "Barcode" images were for breeding management or inventory control by his owner or captors.
Egyptians marked their slaves with dots and dashes around the wrists (men) and ankles (women) to prove ownership.
I (37) still have a *tattoo* that my aunt gave me when she put cigarette ashes on a cut that I got when I was 6. Thanks a lot :/.
Did he use vi or Emacs?
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