World's Oldest Masks

[Still Waters]

Billed as "the oldest masks in the world," a creepy collection of 9,000-year-old stone faces is now display in Israel.

With stilted smiles and large eyeholes, the artifacts are thought to have represented the spirits of dead ancestors and may have been worn during Stone Age ceremonies and rituals, researchers say.

http://www.livescien...ael-museum.html

http://www.livescien...-stone-age.html

[Eldorado]

*shudders* Even the smiley one is spooky.

[coolguy]

That's cool they would make a cool goalie mask.

[beelzebufo]

Jason Voorhees has got nothing on whoever must have worn these.