Posted on 04/30/2018 7:05:22 AM PDT by C19fan
Scientists discovered a strange, tall, humanoid wooden figure under four meters of peat in a Russian bog. The figure, dubbed the Shirgir Idol (after the bog where it was found), is more than twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids.
Gold miners stumbled upon pieces of the wooden figure in 1894. 100 years later, radiocarbon dating helped researchers trace the sculpture back some 9,900 years, which made it the oldest monumental sculpture in the world. The most recent analysis of the idol, published in Antiquity journal, pegged the figure at about 11,500 years old.
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920029612
I looked at the image and thought it might be alternating tin beds of hard rock and soft rock (say sandstone and siltstone) that are tipped near vertical and then weather out to cause linear depressions.
The above link says that they are sand dune features - so the dry (and light-colored) hills, and the wetter, greener (darker) troughs. Still though - very cool looking.
That is one possible interpretation, but they are way too straight and regular for that.
It is also possible that this is very very old sign of a long-gone civilization.
Sure. No problem.
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