Which came first (ever!): The tattoo or The military tattoo?

Question

What I Mean :-)

Tattoo: Markings people decorate their skin with.

Military Tattoo: The event with soldiers, etc.

Answer 1

tattoo

Answer 2

The tattoo...  Throughout history different tribes and people have gotten tattoos...    Indians are especially noted for it

Answer 3

The Tatoo is very likely 10s of 1000's of years old, and was practiced long before there was any concept of "military", so the answer is most definitly A.

Answer 4

tattoos definently came first. Ancient egypitians used to practice tattooing as well as the 'ice man' that was discovered in 1991. He was estimated to be from 3300 BC and he had many tattoos

Answer 5

The chicken.

Answer 6

Otzi the Ice Man had tattoos. He was a Stone Age hunter found in the frozen Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. So tattoos go back at least 5,000 years or more.

Answer 7

I dont know FOR SURE because- Hey you cant know EVERYTHING, but I would say the Tattoo, that makes more sense.  War came before any of them.  I mean they have tattoos and then theres a huge civil war thing in China or Africa and then came the War tats...

Answer 8

Obviously the tattoo.

It was used by people who lived in South America and the Pacific Islands before there was ever a "military"  

Answer 9

Tattoo.  It dates back centuries.  The military tattoo came later.