The sculpture, dated to 11,500 years ago, may have stood more than 5 m (16 ft) high
Material
Wood
Height
2.8 m
Created
12,000 years
Discovered
24 January 1890 Sverdlovsk, Russia
Present location
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia
The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture.[1][2] 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.[3] The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old.[4]
It is displayed in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[5]
^Понизовкин, Андрей (September 2003). Куда шагал Шигирский идол? (PDF). Наука Урала (in Russian). No. 20–2003 [848]. Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
^Waugh, Rob (Aug 29, 2015). "Mysterious Russian Statue Is 11,000 Years Old - Twice As Old As The Pyramids". Yahoo News. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
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^ThomasTerberger, Mikhail Zhilin, Svetlana Savchenko (30 Jan 2021). "The Shigir idol in the context of early art in Eurasia". Quaternary International. 573: 14–29. Bibcode:2021QuInt.573...14T. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.025. S2CID 225114455. Retrieved 23 Mar 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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