Ancient Ink

Lars Krutak is a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art. He is author of Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity and Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification. Aaron Deter-Wolf is a prehistoric archaeologist for the Tennessee Division of Archaeology and senior editor of Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America. The contributors are Orlando V. Abinion, Gemma Angel, Ronald G. Beckett, Tara Nicole Clark, Colin Dale, Renée Friedman, Louise Furey, Svetlana Pankova, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Luc Renaut, Benoît Robitaille, Analyn Salvador-Amores, Dong Hoon Shin, Isaac Walters, Leonid T. Yablonsky, and Petar N. Zidarov.

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Lars Krutak

Part One | Skin

1. New Tattoos from Ancient Egypt: Defining Marks of Culture / Renée Friedman

2. Burik: Tattoos of the Ibaloy Mummies of Benguet, North Luzon, Philippines / Analyn Salvador-Amores

3. Reviving Tribal Tattoo Traditions of the Philippines / Lars Krutak

4. The Mummification Process among the “Fire Mummies” of Kabayan: A Paleohistological Note / Dario Piombino-Mascali, Ronald G. Beckett, Orlando V. Abinion, and Dong Hoon Shin

5. Identifications of Iron Age Tattoos from the Altai-Sayan Mountains in Russia / Svetlana Pankova

6. Neo-Pazyryk Tattoos: A Modern Revival / Colin Dale and Lars Krutak

7. Recovering the Nineteenth-Century European Tattoo: Collections, Contexts, and Techniques / Gemma Angel

8. After You Die: Preserving Tattooed Skin / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Lars Krutak

Part Two | Tools

9. The Antiquity of Tattooing in Southeastern Europe / Petar N. Zidarov

10. Balkan Ink: Europe’s Oldest Living Tattoo Tradition / Lars Krutak

11. Archaeological Evidence for Tattooing in Polynesia and Micronesia / Louise Furey

12. Reading Between Our Lines: Tattooing in Papua New Guinea / Lars Krutak

13. Scratching the Surface: Mistaken Identifications of Tattoo Tools from Eastern North America / Aaron Deter-Wolf, Benoît Robitaille, and Isaac Walters

14. Native North American Tattoo Revival / Lars Krutak

15. The Discovery of a Sarmatian Tattoo Toolkit in Russia / Leonid T. Yablonsky

16. Further Evaluation of Tattooing Use-Wear on Bone Tools / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tara Nicole Clark

Part Three | Art

17. What to Make of the Prehistory of Tattooing in Europe? / Luc Renaut

18. Sacrificing the Sacred: Tattooed Prehistoric Ivory Figures of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska / Lars Krutak

19. A Long Sleep: Reawakening Tattoo Traditions in Alaska / Lars Krutak



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Contributors

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