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The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years ago, or during the early Holocene period, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid . [ 3 ]
Stone Age Britain may have boasted giant totem-pole-style wooden monuments, potentially similar to the Shigir Idol, found in Russia, which is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world. (Derek ...
The Shigir Idol, from the east of the Ural mountains. Two skeletons of women aged between 25 and 35 years, dated between 6740 and 5680 BP, both of whom died a violent death. Found at Téviec, France in 1938. The Balkan Mesolithic begins around 15,000 years ago.
The statue was found during construction work, and the exact location of the find has not been properly recorded, but it may have come from the nearby Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Urfa Yeni-Yol. [1] This is not far from other known Pre-Pottery Neolithic A sites around Urfa: Göbekli Tepe (about 10 kilometers), Gürcütepe. [1]
The Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore has an extensive collection of artifacts. The museum's collection contains many archeological finds from the Ural region, including ancient bones, tools, and the famous Shigir Idol. [3] [4]
Yes you are absolutely right as the University of California found out that it is built around 26450 BCE which truns out to be around 28,000 years (28,472 years to be precise) and it's references are also found in the Hindu religious and sacred textbooks which confirm that it is Kapl Vigraha, deity of Lord Shiva and is 28,000 to 30,000 years ...
The rock art in the Urals appears to show similar changes after the Paleolithic, and the wooden Shigir Idol is a rare survival of what may well have been a very common material for sculpture. It is a plank of larch carved with geometric motifs, but topped with a human head.
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