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Many Pacific island nations hold tattoos in high regard, and a new research effort to date some ancient tattooing implements found decades ago reveals that the practice is thousands of years old.

A typical example of the same is the earliest known evidence of tattoos to date—the tattoos of Ötzi the Iceman. In September 1991, two German tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, stumbled upon a ...