Snow Goggles; first sunglasses were used 2000 years ago by Inuit hunters, inhabiting Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, to shield their eyes from blinding glare of light reflected off snow.
Made from carved driftwood, bone, walrus ivory or caribou antler that formed strip worn across eye area, with thin slits. Goggles were cut so that they fit tightly to face and often soot or gunpowder was rubbed on outside to absorb light and further cut down on glare.
@archaeohistories The Inuit and other peoples were living long back into the glacial ages. I suggest that the Snow Goggles are tens of thousands of years old, but that the oldest ones we have found are 2000 years old. These were smart, resourceful peoples. I doubt they lived for 10000 years in glacial and arctic areas before someone thought of goggles. #personalOpinion #speculation #noResearch #noevidence #respect