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Painted Stone Finding Gives Clues To Ancient Spiritual Culture
Asahi Shimbun ^ | December 16, 2017 | Fumiko Yoshigaki

Posted on 02/12/2018 9:51:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Measuring 12 to 13 cm per side and 1.4 cm thick, the stone, flattened with a whetstone or other tools, is shaped like an inverted triangle.

While a horizontal line is drawn near the top side with a black pigment, an ellipse that apparently represents an eye and lines forming eyebrows and the nose are also painted on it.

Although how the stone piece was actually used remains unclear, experts said the object may have been used for religious services and other purposes in ancient times.

A painting of a human body drawn with pigments at the lower part of the earthenware unearthed at the Todonomiya archaeological site in Nagano Prefecture is known to have been made during the Jomon Pottery Culture, but no face drawings have previously been found across Japan, according to center officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at asahi.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; japan; jomon
A stone piece bearing the painting of a human face and found in Kikonai, Hokkaido (Yoshinori Toyomane)

A stone piece bearing the painting of a human face and found in Kikonai, Hokkaido (Yoshinori Toyomane)

1 posted on 02/12/2018 9:51:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Turns out it was just a Cool Rancy Dorito that somehow had fallen into the dig.
/jk

2 posted on 02/12/2018 9:53:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Glad to see you back in operation, SunkenCiv. We missed you back there in 2016. Your posts are educational.


3 posted on 02/12/2018 9:54:23 PM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto
Thanks bkopto!

4 posted on 02/12/2018 10:01:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
Hmmm...

Is that the only photo? Pretty amateurish to use a coin of unfamiliar size, rather than a metric scale...

Could be just the lighting, but it almost looks like that top side may have been ground down to a cutting or scraping edge.

Instead of the inevitable archaeological cop-out fallback of "ceremonial", why not suggest that the maker marked that piece to frustrate would-be thieves who coveted his favorite fish-scaler? '-)

5 posted on 02/12/2018 10:25:25 PM PST by TXnMA (MSM? No, thanks -- I prefer my news from the other end of the horse...)
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To: SunkenCiv

It`s a G-String.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 10:46:16 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: SunkenCiv

mmmmmm...pizza


7 posted on 02/12/2018 11:55:32 PM PST by FlyFisher
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To: SunkenCiv

Just like how they developed Nebraska man from a pig bone

Wish they’d quit trying so hard


8 posted on 02/13/2018 12:45:18 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pizza worshippers.


9 posted on 02/13/2018 3:17:25 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s an ancient guitar pic!


10 posted on 02/13/2018 4:23:55 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: SunkenCiv

The “human” has purty antennae :-)


11 posted on 02/13/2018 5:09:12 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Triangle, eye, lines, human figure....it’s the illuminati!


12 posted on 02/13/2018 6:30:43 AM PST by reed13k
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To: reed13k

It’s the Illuminati with a side of french onion dip!


13 posted on 02/13/2018 7:57:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: bunkerhill7

Even more exciting, in deeper strata, a Jomon F-string was found!


14 posted on 02/13/2018 8:07:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Islander7
It's Keith Richards'!

15 posted on 02/13/2018 8:09:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dang...the Pizzagate rabbit hole goes DEEP!


16 posted on 02/15/2018 9:39:55 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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