15 abril 2021

Indigenous groups that paint their bodies tend to live in areas where there is an abundance of...

Indigenous groups that paint their bodies tend to live in areas where there is an abundance of bloodsucking horseflies, mosquitoes, or tsetse flies. A study in 2019 showed that this was not a coincidence: painted stripes on the body protect skin from insect bites. A model with no stripes attracted ten times as many biting insects as a model with white stripes painted on.

Interestingly, archaeological evidence suggests that body painting appeared before clothes, another way to protect against insect bites.

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