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Tattoos

Tattoos for healing & social signaling among the ancients

Eleanor Konik
Jul 05, 2021
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I’ve been reading The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor as part of the research to fully develop the nomadic tribe of spider-herders inhabiting the central plain of the region my novel Civil Mage takes place in. There’s a lot of interesting information about how tattooing practices varied in the Ancient World, so I decided to head down the rabbit hole.

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