Amysterious wooden statue , extracted from a peat bog in Eastern Russia in the 19thcentury , has been go out back 11,000 years by a squad of German scientist this week , making what was already the human beings ’s oldest wooden carving even older .
The god was carbon go steady in 1997 , which indicate it was roughly 9,500 year old , but a raw team of scientists has re - analyzed the target usingaccelerator mass spectrographic analysis , a much more sensitive method acting . This revealed that it was actually created around 1,500 years sooner , at the start of the Holocene epoch – the beginning of the time period in which human race begin to dominate the domain .
The queer idol is on display at the Sverdlovsk History Museum in Yekaterinburg , Russia . Wikimedia
Thomas Terberger , one of those involved in dating the Idol , distinguish theSiberian Timesthat : " The result exceeded our expectations . This is an extremely crucial data for the international scientific biotic community . It is significant for see the development of culture and the art of Eurasia and humanity as a whole .
" We can say that in those multiplication , 11,000 twelvemonth ago , the huntsman , fisher and gatherers of the Urals were no less highly-developed than the farmers of the Middle East . "
The unusual carving , nominate the Shigir Idol , is think to have been make by an ancient civilization for religious or spiritual purposes , and has a lose speech communication carved into it that scientist are far from deciphering .
Made from a newly felled157 - twelvemonth - quondam larch tree , the unknown carpenter carved the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree using stone pecker , imaging 7 faces – one of which is three - dimensional – and inscribing it with symbols . The idol was initially measured at 5.3 meters ( 17 feet ) marvellous , but now stand at just 2.8 cadence ( 9 feet ) after portion of the artifact went omit during the Soviet era , though not before pre - radical archaeologist Vladimir Tolmachev was able-bodied to take in the full piece ( see below ) .
Vladimir Tolmachev ‘S drafting of the intact artifact before part of it was lost . face circled in red . Wikimedia
The paragon , which currently sits on display at the Sverdlovsk History Museum in Yekaterinburg , Russia , is more than twice as old as both the Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge in the U.K.
