From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what appear to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing, according ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...

but Mayan tattooing tools had never been found. James Stemp at Keene State College in New Hampshire and his team analysed two fragments of stone discovered in the late 1990s in a cave in Belize.

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes ... Kab were likely puncturing tools used by the ancient Maya for the purposes of ...

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They announced the discovery of two burin spalls—or stone flakes—believed ... or ritual significance in Mayan tattooing. They also believe that the puncture tools may have been purposefully ...

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