Tennessee site yields oldest known American tattoo tools sciencenewsforstudents.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencenewsforstudents.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Once the driving force of the southeast Tennessee city’s economic growth, Chattanooga’s riverfront is home to just the 10th shipwreck recorded in state history – a boat whose story time forgot.
Somewhere beneath the surface of this section of the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tenn., rests the remains of a steamboat that researchers believe may have historical significance. (Courthouse News photo/Daniel Jackson)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (CN) It’s one of the last places you’d expect a maritime mystery to rest: in the midst of an inland southern city, along the waterfront that has defined the city for decades.
Researchers have analyzed a group of Native American “toolkit” artifacts and revealed that the kit’s turkey bones may be the oldest tattoo kit in the world!
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