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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.

S Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Mar 10, 2009 17:08:16
Replying to Littlestone

The Jomon are very ancient and Graham Hancock has documented some interesting findings about them in his Underworld series of programmes. Then again Eric Van Daniken has proposed some unusual hypotheses about the glare goggles found on ancient Polynesian statues - just think 'cargo cult'.

And Jane, what makes you think those stones were polissoirs? (Sorry for me spelling). What if the rocks attributed as edge tool sharpeners were actually just sculptures in their own right? British and South Sea. Nobody's going to change their mind but context is everything - look where they're found. (Perhaps just where you need a sharp blade for ritual sacrifice!)

Just as I was wrong about malaria I was also wrong about fungi. Not P. mexicana there but P. cubensis. Same chemicals, different species. I just wish I could remember which bits of Cook they got back. (I spiralled off onto Roy Harper thread as consequence - he's still alive and living in Cork).

T tiompan
tiompan Mar 10, 2009 17:13:34
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
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.

Inuit use them too .