{"id":342,"date":"2019-07-10T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T08:59:32","slug":"ear-piercing-its-history-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/ear-piercing-its-history-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear Piercing, It’s History And Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ear Piercing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ear piercing<\/a> practice dates back to about 5,000 years ago. This is backed by evidence of a mummy known as \u00d6tzi the Iceman, a man who lived during the 4th millennium. It was discovered that his ears had piercings on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also proven, that the Egyptians of ancient times had ear piercings as evidenced by the holes found on the ear lobes of King Tutankhamen’s mummy \u2013 a pharaoh of ancient Egypt. They also found earrings in his tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ear piercing has\ncultural and spiritual significance. In some primitive societies,\nwhen a child approaches puberty, their ears are pierced in\ncelebration. Spiritually, some communities in the past believed that\nevil spirits possessed humans through the ears, so the earlobes were\npierced for them to be able to leave when they enter while some\nbelieved that metals kept the evil spirits away, so they wore\nearrings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Africa, in a clan known as Samburu, their fighters are made to pierce their ears and put on earplugs made of ivory to signify that they have become men and are brave. The father and mother of a child in Borneo would each pierce an earlobe of their child, to show that the child depends on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the Borneo\npeople wore barbells on their ears. The Dayak of Borneo was known to\nwear them, many years ago. In the 70s, the man who founded the first\nbody piercing shop in the United States, Jim Ward, was the one who\nmade barbells popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the 16th\ncentury, in Europe, men who worked in the King’s court were known to\npierce their ears. Sailors also usually wore an earring on one ear to\nsignify that they have sailed far and wide. They also wore them in\ncase they died at sea, so whoever found them would sell the earring\nand give them a decent burial with the proceeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, towards the\n18th century, clip-on earrings started replacing earrings that\nrequired piercing. Piercings were left to the lowly of birth, till\nthe 50s, after the war. It was as if people, women especially, wanted\nto make up for looking disheveled during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ear piercings became\nfashionable once again. Then, there were no piercing shops like can\nbe found everywhere today. What young women did was to get their\nlobes numb using ice block cubes, before piercing. As time went on,\nit became necessary to get ear piercings in hospitals to avoid\ninfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ear piercing shops began gaining popularity around the 80s, and by the 90s, fewer people had reservations about getting their ears pierced. Today almost every country and culture have people who wear earrings, mostly for adornment purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piercing of the ear\nhas evolved so much so that different parts of the ear can be\npierced. Types of piercing include the standard piercing; which is\ndone on the earlobe. Daith piercing, conch piercing, tragus piercing,\nindustrial piercing;(usually done on both parts of the top of the\nears, for barbells to be inserted, ) and rook piercing. An individual\ncan have more than twenty different piercings on the ear because\nalmost every part of the ear can be pierced. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ear piercing practice dates back to about 5,000 years ago. This is backed by evidence of a mummy known as \u00d6tzi the Iceman, a man who lived during the 4th millennium. It was discovered that his ears had piercings on them. It is also proven, that the Egyptians of ancient times had ear piercings as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ear-piercing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.body-piercing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}