The Oldest Wooden Sculpture in the World

How the World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Reshaping Prehistory

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The world’s oldest wooden sculpture, the Shigir Idol. It was discovered in 1890 at the border between the Ural Mountains and Siberia. The work is 12,500 years old. This was still during the Ice Age, and it predates the rise of Mesopotamian civilization. Its huge and menacing appearance may have served to mark territory. The highly abstract carved patterns look somewhat similar to the patterns of Göbekli Tepe. Of course, it was made 1,500 years earlier than Göbekli Tepe. How many works of art have rotted away and vanished? The Shigir Idol overturns the established notion that everywhere else was inferior compared to the centers of civilization.