Piercing_In_Ancient_Times

Piercing In Ancient Times Body Modification and Constraints to Those Who Pursue It Throughout history people have practiced body modification for many purposes. Body modification includes the practices of piercing, tattooing, and scarring certain parts of the body. There are detailed practices that also arise from body modification, such as stretching or suspension. Body modification, though now gaining current popularity, is nothing new. It can be traced back to at least the 9th century B.C.E. from a stone artifact containing the picture of an Iraqi man with a pierced ear. There are artifacts ranging from the 4th century B.C.E. to around 1500 A.D. showing depictions of multiple ear piercing and lobe stretching. Lip and labret (the area of skin between the lip and the chin) piercing can be traced back to the Eskimo of Alaska around 1800 A.D. and can be found in cultures today. The piercing of the nose can be traced back around the same period as well. Ancient cultures used to participate in tattooing as well. The Maori tribe used tattooing (called moko by the Maori) on both men and women for many purposes. Moko could be used to define marital or social status, importance, a body, modification, tattooing, piercing, practices, tattooed, north, cultures, america, though, popular, person, decoration, suspension, people, decorations, back, today, scarification, same, retail, purposes, piercings, one’s, oneself, one, modern, ear, distinguish, current, traced, tattoo, stars, skin, similar