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Tattooed fingers under white light
People of the Chancay culture, who lived along Peru’s central coast from around a.d. 900 to 1533, tattooed their skin with intricate geometric designs and images of animals. Some of this artwork is preserved on the skin of mummified Chancay individuals, but the ink has bled and faded as the bodies have decayed over the centuries. This has obscured the designs’ original clarity. A team of researchers led by paleobiologists Michael Pittman of the Chinese U
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