#The Shigir Idol

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The Shigir Idol, discovered in the peat bog of Shigir on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, near the village of Kalata, is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world. It was carved during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, making it twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old.

The sculpture was discovered on January 24, 1890, at a depth of 4 meters. It was extracted in ten parts and reconstituted to a height of 2.8 meters. Some researchers suggest that the original height of the statue was 5.3 meters. Unfortunately, some of these fragments were lost, so only drawings of them remain.

The initial radiocarbon dating gave an age of around 9,500 years. However, a later German analysis gave an age of 11,500 years, making it the most ancient wooden sculpture of its kind known in the world. In 2021, researchers published the results of a series of recent AMS-results dating the Idol close to the beginning of the Holocene (c. 10,000 cal BC) or about 12,000 years before present.

The Shigir Idol is a nine-foot-tall totem pole composed of ten wooden fragments carved with expressive faces, eyes, and limbs and decorated with geometric patterns. It represents the oldest known surviving work of wooden ritual art in the world. More than a century after its discovery, archaeologists continue to uncover surprises about this astonishing artifact. It is displayed in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia. 

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Discovered in Russia in 1890, the Shigir Idol is one of the oldest known wooden sculptures, dating to approximately 12,000 years ago. It was found in a peat bog, which had preserved it.

The sculpture is 2.8 metres high, but its original height is thought to have been 5 metres or more. It was carved from a larch tree (approximately 159 years old at the time) using the jaws of a beaver and stone tools. On it are faces, hands, and zigzag lines.

It was apparently placed upright next to a lake before it fell into the bog, thus preserving it for over 12,000 years.

According to Thomas Terberger, a scholar of prehistory at Göttingen University in Germany:

“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia. The landscape changed, and the art—figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted in caves and carved in rock—did, too, perhaps as a way to help people come to grips with the challenging environments they encountered.”

It is currently on display in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Russia.

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Picture Credits: Siberian Times

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Discovered in Russia in 1890, the Shigir Idol is one of the oldest known wooden sculptures, dating to approximately 12,000 years ago. It was found in a peat bog, which had preserved it.

The sculpture is 2.8 metres high, but its original height is thought to have been 5 metres or more. It was carved from a larch tree (approximately 159 years old at the time) using the jaw of a beaver and stone tools. On it are faces, hands, and zigzag lines. No one knows what it was used for, but some say it could have been a territorial or navigational marker, or perhaps it depicts forest spirits or had some ritual purpose. Some have suggested that it depicts a creation myth.

The sculpture might have been placed upright next to an ancient lake before it fell into the bog, thus preserving it for over 12,000 years.

According to Thomas Terberger, a scholar of prehistory at Göttingen University in Germany:

“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia. The landscape changed, and the art—figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted in caves and carved in rock—did, too, perhaps as a way to help people come to grips with the challenging environments they encountered.”

This sculpture was carved about ten thousand years before the city of London was founded and is over twice the age of Stonehenge. A truly ancient artifact.

It is currently on display in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Russia.

Picture Credits: Siberian Times

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The Shigir Sculpture is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world. It was made during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age.

The wood it was carved from is around 11,500 years old.

Its ancient creators carved the work from a single larch tree with 159 growth rings, the authors write in the study.

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 object — a nine-foot-tall totem pole composed of ten wooden fragments carved with expressive faces, eyes and limbs and decorated with geometric patterns — represents the oldest known surviving work of wooden ritual art in the world.

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First attempt at a day scene with the little blue lady. This odd angle mostly resulted from the fact I didn't know what to color the sky.

The tall dudes are based on the Shigir Idol, one of many ancient artifacts I'm obsessed with.

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This Wooden Sculpture Is Twice as Old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

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The oldest known wood carved sculpture in the world, the Shigir idol, was carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in today’s Russia some 11000 years ago. Found in 1890, on a depth of 4 meters in a peat bog in Shigir, Middle Urals.

Drawings by: Vladimir Tolmachev

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Finds of the Shigir peat bog

This peat bog is located in a vast natural basin. In ancient times, the Shigir peat bog was a system of lakes, on the banks and peat bogs of which our distant ancestors lived. Now its length is about 17 kilometers, and its width is more than 10 kilometers. In the center of the peat bog is the gradually overgrown Shigirskoye Lake. In the middle of the 19th century, the "gold rush" dominated the Urals. Gold deposits were also found on the Shigir peat bog - under peat layers up to 8 meters deep. The developments at these mines were carried out in open cuts.

Shigir Lake was partially drained. The miners who worked here found unusual objects every now and then. Unfortunately, before archaeologists appeared on the Shigir peat bog, many unique items were irretrievably lost. It is possible that among them were no less sensational finds than the Shigir idol.

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Discovered in 1890, the Shigir Idol is one of the oldest known wooden sculptures, dating to approximately 12,000 years ago

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The Shigir Idol

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12,100 larch tree wood sculpture years old found in Russia's Ural Mountains

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The 11,500 year old Shigir Idol, discovered in the peat bog of Shigir in the Middle Ural Mountains near Kalata, Russia.

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i made the shigir idol

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The Shigir Idol