How and why Ötzi, perhaps the world’s most studied corpse, got the body art has long been ... edges consistent with a hand-poked tattoo, most likely made with a bone or copper, Deter-Wolf ...

Taphonomic, I immediately replied, assuming the skeleton had been wrapped in cloth that bled into the bone. But that got me wondering: Can you tattoo a bone? The practice of tattooing, however ...

Cudi's new skeleton hand tattoo is the 10th piece of body art he's received from Woo. "Skeleton Hand Man," Cudi captioned a photo of the design. "My 10th Woo piece. What should I get next?

Tools and approaches used to make the tattoos, shown here, consisted of: (upper row, left to right) hand tapping the handle of a bone point, hand poking a copper awl, slicing skin with an obsidian ...