Some of the oldest, and most well-known tattoos date from the Tyrolean Alps of Western Europe around 5,400 BCE (Dorfer et al. 2010). Some of the first tattoos were for medical purposes, specifically, as target points for the practice of acupuncture (Dorfer et al. 2010). Tattoos were practiced in Europe prior to the Age of Discovery that followed the initial contact between European Powers and Indigenous peoples of the Americans (Carr 2005; Gilbert 2000; Renault 2011), though the rise of Christianity reduced the number of people getting tattoos. The Emperor of Constantine and his orders outlawed tattoos as a form of punishment (Rena0075lt 2011:15). Before the rise of Christianity within the Roman Empire, tattooing had been common in some integrated