Posted on 04/27/2018 7:51:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In 1894, gold prospectors near the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia unearthed not gold, but wood, and a very special wood at that. Specifically, they unearthed what's now known as the Shigir Idol, a 5-meter (16-foot) carved wooden statue that was marked with recognizable human faces and hands, as well as several intricate markings. The statue was believed to be merely a few thousand years old, and it simply sat on display at a Russian Museum for many years.
In 1990s, researchers conducted a radiocarbon analysis of the statues to finally determine how old it really is, and turned up with a dating of about 9,800 years old. At the time, the results were rather controversial and many scholars rejected the results, stating that hunter-gatherers couldn't possibly have created such a large statue, especially one with intricate carvings and designs.
In 2014, a team of researchers took samples from the sculpture's core and used newer analytical techniques to date the unadulterated samples. Instead of revealing a much earlier date than the previous controversial findings, researchers dated the sculpture to be even older than previously dated at 11,600 years old.
...
Researchers of the study have gone back to Shigir in hopes of finding more evidence that could help them understand the creators of the mysterious artifact better. So far, they have found hundreds of bone points and daggers from the same time period, as well as elk antlers with animal faces carved onto them.
(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...
Surely you are kidding, i hope.
Interesting.
The scientists must be lying about this for some reason. What might that reason be?
Or are they simply inept?
The most important thing any of these people do is "publish". It's what it's all about.
I’d be okay with the sentence structure, if they’d just use the word “later” instead of “earlier.” I don’t see how it could be older if it doesn’t date back to an earlier time.
Yep...................
I hear you but OTOH even when taking into account that they may have spread the effort to quarry, move, and finish huge stones over centuries consider the size of the economy that would be required to provide all that labor and cost. Yet that civilization left no other trace than those stones. So the Ancient Aliens (as far out as they are) do make a pretty good point. It is not likely that the effort to produce these huge structures were as costly or protracted as we assume. And they are everywhere. The Temple Mount has 100 ton stones. The place in Syria where Alexander’s guys built a Greek Temple on top of it has such massive stones. Even Stonehenge is an example.
It is probably real old. It probably pre-dates the last ice age.
But radio carbon dating on this type of thing is sometimes wildly off. Radio carbon dating is good for things that are really, really old. But the deviation at 11k year is pretty wide.
The reason putting 'institutional knowledge' down on paper is a good idea...
I dont think they are lying. At least not intentionally. But the minute you suggest that civilization existed long ago and declined...it is going to ruffle some feathers.
Its the same thing where humanoids roamed the earth. And then, boom! they were farming and building cities, and writing stuff down.
Yeah...that’s evolution.
Any other explanation opens up too many doors answered by guys with messy hair suggesting “Aliens?”
Exactly. Imagine if something horrific happened—a mad virus or something like that—which wiped out 95% of mankind.
While we could probably get by for a half a generation on stuff that was left over...it would soon all break or just wear out. No more gas. No more power cells. No more electric pumps (new ones.)
If something like that happened to wipe a bunch of folks out, it would take the engineers and mechanics with it. It would be pretty grim, pretty fast.
Only primitive societies carve totem poles.
Not very good evidence of “alien” visitations, in my opinion
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
“His account quickly progresses from raising crops to making soap, shearing and spinning wool, mining coal, generating electricity, and building radios. Of course, since this is all speculation, it’s hard to predict what people would be able to scavenge and what will be left intact or who might be on earth besides yourself. Dartnell doesn’t address questions of governing this survivors’ society or how people would collaborate on rebuilding or how hopeless some will feel without Google and smartphones. Still, Dartnell’s vision is a great start in understanding what it took to build our world. —Laurie Borman”
Stone tablets was a good idea, too. As long as you don’t get mad and throw them down.
That’s one big spoon.
The cost of labor, which was often a slave’s wages, was much less for the ancients than it is for us today.
LOL!.................
It’s slave owner, Igor the White. Burn it!!!!!
Exactly. Imagine if something horrific happened—a mad virus or something like that—which wiped out 95% of mankind.
While we could probably get by for a half a generation on stuff that was left over...it would soon all break or just wear out. No more gas. No more power cells. No more electric pumps (new ones.)
Check out Eric Flint’s 1632 book series. A town in West Virginia is transported from 2000 to 1631 in the middle of the Thirty Years War in Europe.
They dropped back to steam engines and leveraged present technology to that era. It’s amazing what you can do with old tech if you know it can be done. Within a few years they had flying machines and railroads.
Let's make a fake ancient sculpture. Go find me a giant chunk of 11000 year-old wood.
I could carve a face on a redwood tree that’s over 2000 years old, but that wouldn’t make my carving 2000 years old.
There are no 11000 year old redwoods. (Or larch trees, the type of wood in the sculpture.) Plus, only the middle of a 2000 year-old tree is 2000 years old.
a spindly small tuberculosis infected man created a coral castle out of huge blocks of coral, all by himself- not only that- but after it was completed- he was forced to move the whole thing- block by block- by himself to a new location- it’s a fascinating read!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.