{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "timeline",
 "type": "story",
 "names": {
  "name": "Five thousand years",
  "said": "From the oldest marked skin to the newest studio"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "prehistory"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The dated points: bodies with marks on them, bans with statutes behind them, revivals with a year.",
  "story": "The timeline holds three kinds of date and keeps them apart. **Bodies**: Ötzi, the Gebelein mummies, the Chinchorro man, the Ukok woman, the Cordilleran mummies, the Qilakitsoq women — each with the range its laboratory gave. **Instruments**: the Arku Cave tools. **Paper**: bans, acts, patents and the revivals.\n\n*Inference —* the visible gap between the ancient bodies and the nineteenth-century paper is not a gap in the practice. It is a gap in what survives: skin needs ice, salt, sand or bog, and paper needs an administration. Between them, four thousand years of ordinary tattooing left neither."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "จุดที่มีวันที่ ร่างกายที่มีรอย คำสั่งห้ามที่มีกฎหมายรองรับ และการรื้อฟื้นที่ระบุปีได้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "otzi",
   "as": "The oldest.",
   "rel": "find"
  },
  {
   "to": "machine",
   "as": "The newest thing that changed everything.",
   "rel": "method"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-tzi",
  "s:wp-gebelein-predynastic-mummies",
  "s:wp-chinchorro-mummies"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "archaeology",
  "measured"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "gebelein",
   "type": "find",
   "name": "The Gebelein mummies",
   "as": "Contemporary with Ötzi, on another continent."
  },
  {
   "from": "otzi",
   "type": "find",
   "name": "Ötzi",
   "as": "The oldest dated point on it."
  }
 ]
}