Mysterious Russian Statue Is 11,000 Years Old

[Nutso]

A mysterious wooden idol found in a Russian peat bog has been dated to 11,000 years ago - and contains a code no one can decipher.

The Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Pyramids and Stonehenge - and is by far the oldest wooden structure in the world.

Even more mysteriously, it is covered in what experts describe as ‘encrypted code’ - a message from a lost civilisation.

Professor Mikhail Zhilin of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archeology said: 'The ornament is covered with nothing but encrypted information. People were passing on knowledge with the help of the Idol.'

Russian experts think that the strange carvings may contain a belief system, the equivalent of the Bible’s Genesis.

The statue had been dated as being 9,500 years old, after its discovery in a peat bog 125 years ago.

But new research in Mannheim, Germany used Accelerated Mass Spectrometry n small fragments of the sculpture, and found it is at least 11,000 years old.

That means the sculpture dates from the very beginning of the Holocene epoch - the era when man rose to dominate the world.

Russia? Beginning of civilization?

Belated link = https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-ru ... ml#OqttGqz

[Mikey]

If it's from 11,000 years ago and the eastern side of the Urals (the idol was found in Kvirograd,) I'd bet it predates what we call civilization by a fair bit. What's commonly defined as civilization had its beginnings between 6500 BCE and 5500 BCE, in climates far more germane to farming than that of trans-Ural Russia. The possibility of the statue being used to communicate may indicate the presence of some of the same motivations to civilize - considering that such "written" communication was likely intended to transmit a message to someone who wasn't present, but was expected to be in a given location within a general time frame - but doesn't represent the complete cultural shift to settlement and horticulture.

[Teaos]

Oldest current civilisation dates to around 15,000 although maybe not in that specific area.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Nutso, was there a link to the article this comes from?

[Nutso]

Nutso, was there a link to the article this comes from?

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I hate making mistakes. I'll go look for the link.

[Nutso]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-ru ... ml#OqttGqz

[Mikey]

Oldest current civilisation dates to around 15,000 although maybe not in that specific area.

The article to which you linked states an earliest date for that tel's usage of 10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE, not 15,000; further, it explicitly states evidence of usage by pre-pottery neolithic peoples, which sort of obviates the idea of civilization in the classical archaeological sense.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Nutso, was there a link to the article this comes from?

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I hate making mistakes. I'll go look for the link.

It's cool, dude. Thanks for finding it. I wish I could see these inscriptions!