• The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years...
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    appears to show similar changes after the Paleolithic, and the wooden Shigir Idol is a rare survival of what may well have been a very common material...
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    oak was the preferred medium. The oldest wood carved sculpture, the Shigir Idol carved from larch, is around 12,000 years old. Chip carving Relief carving...
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    Statue, from c. 9000 years ago, found in Tel Jericho 'Ain Ghazal Statues Shigir Idol Potts, Daniel T. (2012). A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient...
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    cave (X millennium BC). In 1890, the 11 thousand years old (Mesolithic) Shigir idol was discovered. A settlement and a burial ground in the Kalmatsky Brod...
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    Southern to Northern Europe. Venus of Monruz, Switzerland, c. 9000 BC Shigir Idol, Russia, c. 10,000 BC Roca dels Moros, Spain Magura Cave drawings, Bulgaria...
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    appears to show similar changes after the Paleolithic, and the wooden Shigir Idol is a rare survival of what may well have been a very common material...
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  • rock shelters, Tambun cave, and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings; the Shigir Idol; the Robin Hood Cave Horse 11,000 BC – Rock paintings at Matobo National...
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    first manifestations of this kind known in Central Europe. 11.5 kya The Shigir Idol, a wooden sculpture, resides in the Historic Exhibition Museum in Yekaterinburg...
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    2021. Kovalev 2022, p. 769, Fig.1. Bobrov, Vladimir (January 2021). "Shigir idol: Origin of monumental sculpture and ideas about the ways of preservation...
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  • upright stone, typically from the Bronze Age Ovoo Peace pole Sacred groves Shigir Idol Stele, stone or wooden slab erected as a monument Totem pole Trees in...
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    from the Ural region, including ancient bones, tools, and the famous Shigir Idol. In addition to the main museum in Yekaterinburg, SOCM operates 10 other...
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