New Insights on History of Tattooing (Inaugural Conference)
Résumé
I. NUBIA AND EGYPT : ROOTS AND PARADIGMS
The Oldest Preserved Tattoos in Africa. Two Contrasting Traditions (Geometrical and covering ; Emblematic and Isolated). Customary Tattooing and Sub-cultural Tattooing. City-States against the Tattoo.
II. ANCIENT EUROPE : A FRAGMENTARY HISTORY
Paleolithic (The Cruel Lack of Obvious Evidence ; The Trap of Human Representations). Neolithic (Painted and Incised Figurines ; Ötzi, the First Tattooed European). Protohistory and Antiquity (The Daunian Female Tattooing (700-500 BC) ; Thracian and Traditional Balkan Female Tattooing ; Non-gendered Pazyryk Tattooing ; British Islands ; Northeners of the Danube).
III. EARLY MODERN TATTOOING : A HISTORY TO BE REVISED
Introduction : the Medieval Western Vacuum. An Exotic Import of the British Navy ? The “Cook Myth”. Holy Healers and Pilgrims. Popular Tattoing in Eighteenth Century Italy. The Atlantic Experience(The French in America ; British and French Working Class).