In addition to these stone statues scattered in Turkey, on Easter Island and other places, there are still surviving WOODEN statues in Russia (in the Urals). This is the so-called Shigir Idol - Шигирский идол — ВикипедияLet us recall that this area of Turkey was once ruled over by the Hittites, the people of Abraham and Nefertiti (who we know had an elongated skull). In the Bible, Abraham was connected to the ancient city of Harran, the city of the mysterious star gazing Sabians. In turn, Harran is close to the modern city of Sanliurfa (not far from Goblekli Tepe) where a statue of a strange looking figure (named "Urfa Man") was discovered and is now exhibited in a museum (see below):
The official dating is 12,000 years. The statues are made of larch, which is almost indestructible and resistant to water. For thousands of years they lay at the bottom of peat bogs and were found by accident.
From Wikipedia:
The Great Shigir Idol is an archaeological site, the oldest surviving wooden sculpture in the world. Age, according to the latest estimates by scientists, reaches 12,100 years[2], previously called 11,600 years[3][4][1]. The idol was made of larch in the 11th millennium BC, during the Mesolithic era. This artifact is dated comparable to similar finds from southeastern Anatolia, such as the columns at Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori. The discovered monuments indicate that in the Holocene era the spiritual world and the art of hunter-gatherers were much richer and more complex than previously imagined[5].
The idol was discovered in 1890 in the Middle Urals near the modern city of Kirovgrad. Currently it is kept in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in the city of Yekaterinburg, where a separate exhibition is dedicated to it[6][7].
In 2021, the journal Quaternary International published research by archaeologists from the University of Göttingen in Germany, from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a chief researcher from the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum. Scientists, having analyzed the results of previous scientific works, came to the conclusion that the larch with 159 annual rings, from which the artifact was carved, is approximately 12,250 years old, and this suggests that the idol was created at the end of the last ice age - the beginning of the Holocene and is aged about 12,100 years
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