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Rhiannon Mar 10, 2009 15:40:33
Replying to Jane

What an amazing adventure. I thought it was so interesting that there you are on the other side of the world, but you can bring your previous knowledge about British prehistory and it can have some bearing on understanding what you're looking at - it was the polissoirs you found and recognised that really caught my eye. But the carvings are just great too. The ones with the specs are very interesting. It could be nothing to do with it but I remember seeing some bone 'specs' in the British museum or somewhere - but really they were so people didn't get snowblind, they had a thin slot to peer out of. Is it conceivable the ones on your statues could be sunglasses too, maybe for when you're rowing out on the sea? Might be nothing to do with it. but a thought.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Mar 10, 2009 16:53:15
Replying to Rhiannon

The ones with the specs are very interesting. It could be nothing to do with it but I remember seeing some bone 'specs' in the British museum or somewhere - but really they were so people didn't get snowblind, they had a thin slot to peer out of. Is it conceivable the ones on your statues could be sunglasses too, maybe for when you're rowing out on the sea?
Hi Rhiannon

The snow specs that you saw may have been similar to the one shown on this figurine - http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/a/ae/JomonStatue.JPG/424px-JomonStatue.JPG These clay figurines are from the early Japanese Jomon Period (approx 11,000-300 bce). There are both Polynesian and Mongolian elements in the ethnic makeup of the Japanese so both a sunglass or a snowglass theory are possible.

T tiompan
tiompan Mar 12, 2009 17:12:51
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
What an amazing adventure. I thought it was so interesting that there you are on the other side of the world, but you can bring your previous knowledge about British prehistory and it can have some bearing on understanding what you're looking at - it was the polissoirs you found and recognised that really caught my eye. But the carvings are just great too. The ones with the specs are very interesting. It could be nothing to do with it but I remember seeing some bone 'specs' in the British museum or somewhere - but really they were so people didn't get snowblind, they had a thin slot to peer out of. Is it conceivable the ones on your statues could be sunglasses too, maybe for when you're rowing out on the sea? Might be nothing to do with it. but a thought.
Some similarities here .
http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c733326.html