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The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. It was carved during the Mesolithic period, ...

Shigir Idol

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The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol, is the oldest known wooden sculpture. It was carved during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. The wood it was carved from is... Wikipedia
Created: 12,000 years
Height: 2.8 m
Material: Wood
Discovered: 24 January 1890; Sverdlovsk, Russia
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Mar 24, 2021 · Gold prospectors first discovered the so-called Shigir Idol at the bottom of a peat bog in Russia's Ural mountain range in 1890. The unique ...
Mar 22, 2021 · At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is by far the earliest known work of ritual art. Only decay has kept others from being found.
Nov 3, 2023 · The sculpture, carved from larch wood using stone tools, displays geometric patterns, including zigzags and human faces, consistent with art ...
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Mar 22, 2021 · Head of the Shigir Idol, the world's oldest wood sculpture, discovered in a Russian peat bog in 1890. Photo courtesy of the Sverdlovsk Regional ...
Apr 2, 2021 · Terberger saw the so-called Shigir idol for the first time at the museum — a three-and-a-half meter-tall totem pole with a carved face. For ...
Mar 31, 2021 · The Shigir Idol, which is considered the world's oldest wooden sculpture, is on display. The 17.4-foot-tall (5.3 meters) idol is decorated with ...
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Jun 6, 2021 · We're revisiting a significant discovery made well over a century ago in a peat bog near ...
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Posted: Jun 6, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 · We see the Shigir sculpture as a document of a complex symbolic behavior and of the spiritual world of the Late Glacial to Early Mesolithic ...