Tattoes were an Euroasian practice in Neolithic times, being enclosed in a mummy of that epoch. In the year 1991 a neolithic mummy was inside a glacier of the Alps, Italian south wing. The mummy had got 57 tattoes in the back. This mummy is known as the Man of the Ice or as Ötzi, is the ancien human corpse with skin, who lived in the antiquity, whose age is different according to different scientists.
The word tattoo comes from `tattoo´, which in his turn comes from the Samoan term `tatau´, that means to mark or to strike two times.
In the the Royal Spanish Academy the word tattoo hasn't got an entry, but only as 'tatuaje'.
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