[Red Badger]

Exactly.

The tree may have been very old at the time it was carved....................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....................

[wideminded]

Just because the wood is that old, doesn’t mean the sculpture is that old.

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.