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Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'
The Siberian Times ^ | 15 June 2017

Posted on 07/10/2017 6:05:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

 

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'

By The Siberian Times reporter

15 June 2017

Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age - the Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids.

Two years ago German scientists dated the Idol as being 11,000 years old. Picture: The Siberian Times

New scientific findings suggest that images and hieroglyphics on the wooden statue were carved with the jaw of a beaver,

its teeth intact.

Originally dug out of a peat bog by gold miners in the Ural Mountains in 1890, the remarkable seven-faced Idol is now on display in a glass sarcophagus in a museum in Yekaterinburg.

Two years ago German scientists dated the Idol as being 11,000 years old.

At a conference involving international experts held in the city this week, Professor Mikhail Zhilin said the wooden statue, originally 5.3 metres tall, was made of larch, with the basement and head carved using silicon faceted tools.

'The surface was polished with a fine-grained abrasive, after which the ornament was carved with a chisel,' said the expert.

'At least three were used, and they had different blade widths.

The faces were 'the last to be carved because apart from chisels, some very interesting tools - made of halves of beaver lower jaws - were used'.

He said: 'Beavers are created to carve trees. If you sharpen a beaver's cutter teeth, you will get an excellent tool that is very convenient for carving concave surfaces.'

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'
'This is a masterpiece, carrying gigantic emotional value and force'. Pictures: The Siberian Times, Svetlana Savchenko


The professor has found such a 'tool' made from beaver jaw at another archeological site - Beregovaya 2, dating to the same period.

Studying the Idol, he believed the tool is consistent with its markings, 'for example when making holes more circular', said Svetlana Panina, head of the archaeology department at Sverdlovsk Regional Local History Museum.

The idol was put on a stone basement, not dug in the ground, said Zhilin.

It stood like this for around 50 years before falling into a pond, and was later covered in turf.

The peat preserved it as if in a time capsule.

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'
It is a unique sculpture, there is nothing else in the world like this. Pictures: The Siberian Times


Zhilin, leading researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archeology, has spoken previously of his 'feeling of awe' when studying the Idol, more than twice as old as the Stonehenge monuments in England.

'This is a masterpiece, carrying gigantic emotional value and force,' he said.

'It is a unique sculpture, there is nothing else in the world like this. It is very alive, and very complicated at the same time.

'The ornament is covered with nothing but encrypted information. People were passing on knowledge with the help of the Idol.'

Only one of the seven faces is three dimensional.

While the messages remain 'an utter mystery to modern man', it was clear that its creators 'lived in total harmony with the world, had advanced intellectual development, and a complicated spiritual world', he said.

The Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids. Pictures: The Siberian Times

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'


Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'

 


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; beaver; beaverteeth; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; history; larch; mesolithic; radiocarbondating; russia; shigiridol; shirgiridol; siberia; totempole; uralmountains; youngerdryas
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To: xp38

I’m thinking ancient aliens were actually beaver like creatures.


21 posted on 07/10/2017 8:19:21 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Looks like a totem pole.


22 posted on 07/10/2017 8:22:07 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.


23 posted on 07/10/2017 8:24:26 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
'Beavers are created to carve trees. If you sharpen a beaver's cutter teeth, you will get an excellent tool that is very convenient for carving concave surfaces.'

Interesting post - thanks Tiger.

24 posted on 07/10/2017 8:49:38 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
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To: GOPJ

Should the rodent be dead before you sharpen his teeth?/ JJn


25 posted on 07/10/2017 8:51:22 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks for posting.


26 posted on 07/10/2017 9:47:50 AM PDT by blam
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To: minnesota_bound

and lied about it


27 posted on 07/10/2017 9:53:04 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: null and void

LOL


28 posted on 07/10/2017 10:23:36 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why do they insist on calling things idols? Is there any evidence it was worshiped? Why can’t it just be a sculpture?


29 posted on 07/10/2017 11:22:37 AM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Safetgiver

Here’s something you’ll enjoy - speaking of rodents and all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut0TaegQ-kw


30 posted on 07/10/2017 12:29:10 PM PDT by GOPJ ( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
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