A stone piece bearing the painting of a human face and found in Kikonai, Hokkaido (Yoshinori Toyomane)
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 ...
A stone piece bearing the painting of a human face and found in Kikonai, Hokkaido (Yoshinori Toyomane)
Turns out it was just a Cool Rancy Dorito that somehow had fallen into the dig.
/jk
Glad to see you back in operation, SunkenCiv. We missed you back there in 2016. Your posts are educational.
Thanks bkopto!
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? '-)
It`s a G-String.
mmmmmm...pizza
Just like how they developed Nebraska man from a pig bone
Wish they’d quit trying so hard
Pizza worshippers.
It’s an ancient guitar pic!
The “human” has purty antennae :-)
Triangle, eye, lines, human figure....it’s the illuminati!
It’s the Illuminati with a side of french onion dip!
Even more exciting, in deeper strata, a Jomon F-string was found!
It's Keith Richards'!
Dang...the Pizzagate rabbit hole goes DEEP!
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