Posted on 10/04/2022 5:46:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Consider, for example, the Japanese stone circles from Ōyu and Isedotai in northern Japan. While not the imposing monoliths of Stonehenge, the two circles, made of thousands of smooth river stones, line up with the sun during the summer and winter solstices, and they were both used in burial rites. And for both monuments, collecting materials and completing construction would have taken enormous community effort.
The similarities could also be related to topography: Japan and the United Kingdom are along the same latitude, sharing a similar climate and access to natural resources. But while the Neolithic people living near Stonehenge were farmers, the people of the Jōmon period constructing stone circles in northern Japan were fishers and hunter-gatherers.
The Salisbury exhibition will also display items found at Ōyu and Isedotai that are unique to Japanese culture, such as clay mushroom sculptures, perhaps suggesting an interest “in the mind-altering properties of fungi,” and clay figurines called dogū, which might have been used for fertility and healing rituals, per the Guardian.
Also on display is a clay cooking pot, which was hand-sculpted to mimic flames and likely used to cook fish stew.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Stone?...................
Circles!
You beat me to it! LOL
Ainu that...
Are Ainu the “whiter looking” Japanese?
You can’t play Go with either of them?
Was just a guess!................😜
Moderators would be wise to nip this thread’s sarcasm in the bud.
Dang! I missed that clue!.................🤦♀️
"The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation."
Thank you Sir.
Aliens screwing with our minds?
Until the solar year was approximated at 365.24 days in the 16th century and the Julian Calendar subjected to the Gregorian reform, being able to peg the solstices was extremely useful. There are all sorts of things keyed to the solstices and the equinoxes, which are very useful if you can’t count on your calendar.
I don't think so.
They’re made with rocks. Do I win?
GMTA! LOL
Well maybe if you measure from the bottom of the UK and the very top of Japan.
I chuckled when I saw the movie "The Last Samurai", he was the tallest person in the whole movie.
By country, the Dutch are the tallest people in the world, the Japanese are the shortest.
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