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Siberian Wooden Statue is 'Twice as Old as Stonehenge'

posted by janrinok on Thursday May 03 2018, @05:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the got-old-wood dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Independent has an article about a wooden statue found in peat bog which is 'twice as old as Stonehenge'. Named the Shigir Idol, it was found preserved in a peat bog back in 1890. New dating techniques suggest that it is around 11,000 years old, which would make it the oldest extant wooden sculpture.

Depicting a man with mysterious symbols inscribed on him - which scientists believe could be an ancient encrypted code - the statue is 1,500 years older than previously thought.

Scientists in Mannheim, Germany, used the most up-to-date carbon dating technology, called Accelerated Mass Spectrometry, to determine the statue's age.

Thomas Terberger, a professor at the Department of Cultural Heritage of Lower Saxony, part of the team who dated the Idol, told the Siberian Times: "The results exceeded our expectations.

"This is an extremely important date for the international scientific community. It is important for understanding the development of civilisation and the art of Eurasia and humanity as a whole.

"We can say that in those times, 11,000 years ago, the hunters, fishermen and gatherers of the Urals were no less developed than the farmers of the Middle East."

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  • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday May 04 2018, @03:30AM (2 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Friday May 04 2018, @03:30AM (#675467)

    It still doesn't stop you from writing "duck tape" instead of "duct tape" though...

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  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Friday May 04 2018, @03:59AM

    by arslan (3462) on Friday May 04 2018, @03:59AM (#675476)

    Umm "Duck Tape" is correct too... https://www.amazon.com/Duck-1303158-Metallic-Chrome-Inches/dp/B002TOL44Q [amazon.com]

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 04 2018, @04:06AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday May 04 2018, @04:06AM (#675479) Journal

    The original name [octanecreative.com] of the stuff was "duck" tape, because it was waterproof and moisture rolled off it like "water off a duck's back [wikipedia.org]."

    "Duct" tape developed later when the color was changed to silver and HVAC guys started using it.

    Either one's correct now, but it's slightly more oddball and fun to call it "duck" tape because somebody always says, "Gah, 'duct' tape," as you did just then. :-)

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