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World's oldest wooden statue is TWICE as old as the pyramids: New analysis reveals Shigir Idol is...
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| Will Stewart
Posted on 08/29/2015 7:40:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A stunning wooden statue pulled from a Russian peat bog 125 years ago has been dated as being 11,000 years old after 'sensational' new analysis.
This means the remarkable Shigir Idol, which is covered in encrypted code and may be a message from ancient man, is by far the oldest wooden sculpture in the world.
Previous dating attempts claimed it was made 9,500 years ago.
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The idol was originally dug out of a peat bog in the Ural Mountains in 1890.
'The first attempt to date the idol was made 107 years after its discovery, in 1997.
The first radiocarbon analyses showed the idol was 9,500 calendar years old, which led to disputes in the scientific community.
'To exclude doubts, and to make the results known and accepted, a decision was made to use the most modern technologies to date the idol again, the source said.
'Research was conducted in Mannheim, Germany, at one of the world's most advanced laboratories using Accelerated Mass Spectrometry, on seven minuscule wooden samples.
'The results were astonishing, as samples from inside parts of the idol showed its age as 11,000 calendar years, to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch.
'We also learned that the sculpture was made from a larch which was at least 157 years old.
Clear cuts on the tree trunk leave no doubts that the idol was made from a freshly cut tree, by stone tools.'
The source concluded: 'The research proves that the Big Shigir Idol is the world's oldest wooden sculpture, and an outstanding discovery, a key to understanding Eurasian art.'
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The ancient monument stands 9ft (2.8 metres) in height but originally was 17ft (5.3 metres) tall - as high as a two storey house.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: archaeology; beaverteeth; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; history; idolworship; larch; mesolithic; radiocarbondating; russia; shigiridol; shirgiridol; siberia; totempole; uralmountains; youngerdryas
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To: BenLurkin
in other news:
......Tools and butchered bones found in Russia's Ural Mountains have been attributed to Neanderthals.
.. - This site may represent the world's last refuge for Neanderthals.
.. - The discovery suggests Our species wiped out Neanderthals through interbreeding or replacement....
It might be the Gravestone of the last Cemetery of the Neanderthals.
The "northern Man" has 3-5% DNA of them, today.
That makes it OUR ancient Gravesite.
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posted on
08/29/2015 8:55:28 AM PDT
by
Koracan
Give it to the muslims, they will know what to do with it. Oh, the encryption sais...”Bush’s Fault”
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posted on
08/29/2015 8:58:22 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: BenLurkin
Another monument from the Hyborean age.
To: Koracan
Neanderthals piss me off.
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posted on
08/29/2015 8:59:46 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
To: I want the USA back
It was encrypted in a tar pit.
E.A. Poe would write about it.
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:08:04 AM PDT
by
glyptol
To: BenLurkin
The encryption says: “Moose and squirrel must die!”
To: BenLurkin
It is hardly likely to be the oldest sculpture in the world. It is the oldest known sculpture, the oldest yet found. Just like "the oldest town in the world" or "the oldest metal artifact in the world. That is all BS. Events did not begin in a flash the day each of these things was found to have been constructed. Things do not come into existence just when archaeologists find them.
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(It's true.)
To: silverleaf
be nice if the carvings contained humor, wit or sarcasm to show that ancient man was the ancestor of Free Republic
To: BenLurkin
"Not soon enough for friends so true, Look for the boat when the moon is blue."
-PJ
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:31:35 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: infool7
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:33:02 AM PDT
by
citizen
(America is-or was-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
To: BenLurkin
Elect the man
Who'll build the walls
To keep out
The Neanderthals
- Burma-Shave
To: virgil283
covered in encrypted code and may be a message from ancient man... "If found, please drop in any mailbox. Postage guaranteed."
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:42:33 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
The cave girl flinchedThe cave man leered
She loved his club
But not his beard
Burma-Shave
.
Come on. keep it going.....
To: Fightin Whitey
show that ancient man was the ancestor of Free RepublicThe runes on the bottom have been roughly translated as "Hey, n00b, I've been here since 10,774 BC."
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
"Hey, n00b, I've been here since 10,774 BC." Right and the taglines read "And we're all twice as tall in real life!"
lol
To: Koracan
Defeintely the most obtuse thing I’ve seen posted on FR today.
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:56:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Terry L Smith
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posted on
08/29/2015 9:59:39 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Fightin Whitey
Definitely gives a new meaning to “viking kitties”.
To: Eric Pode of Croydon
An upstanding bunch, those early Freepers.
To: Koracan
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posted on
08/29/2015 10:43:53 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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