3-1-2019

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Scientists from Washington State University have discovered the oldest known tattooing tool in western North America.

The tool was made around 2,000 years ago by the Ancestral Pueblo people in what is now southeastern Utah.

The tool has a handle of skunkbush and a cactus-spine point.

The researchers say the discovery pushes back the earliest evidence of tattooing in western North America by more than 1,000 years.