A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.
The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of ritual art:
… Read the rest “A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.”Dug out of a peat bog by gold miners in 1890,