Mysterious Russian Statue Is 11,000 Years Old - Twice As Old As The Pyramids

Yahoo News UK ^ | Saturday, August 29, 2015 | Rob Waugh

[Dallas59]

“STAY OUT OF OUR FRONT YARD!”

[DoughtyOne]

= :^)

[FlingWingFlyer]

Anybody remember those 10 cent “Smoking Monkeys” we used to play with when we were kids? This looks like an early beta version.

[Stosh]

I think I saw that guy in a Marilyn Manson video.

[DesertRhino]

Looks basically like a totem pole. Which makes sense when you think how those are a thing up in Alaska.

[DoughtyOne]

For some reason, I don't remember them.

[depressed in 06]

11,000 years ago the only message would have been “the f#cking ice is melting”.

[USARightSide]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cackling out loud - - - !

[Buttons12]

Groovy.

Its creators lived in “total harmony” with the world around them, too!

Those wavy zigzags give it away. It’s a double helix. A giant chromosome with the DNA code plain as the nose on your face!

[trisham]

It reminds me of an Alaskan totem pole.

[wtd]

"Extremely stingy with pictures of said artifact."-ArtDodger

• AncientOrigins: 11,000 Years Old: New Dating of Shigir Idol reveals it is Oldest Wooden Sculpture in the World provides several images

[Calvin Locke]

The article says ...the Idol - as tall as a two-storey house...

At 9', there must be a lot of sunken first floors in Russia...

Actually, they're saying some parts did not survive a number of social upheavals since the original finding and documenting took place. Those drawings put the original at 5.3 meters.

[mosesdapoet]

The Mail published an article on this which was posted earlier here also bombarded with 12 year olds sillyness. That report had the discovery carved out of Larch estmated age Was170+ years old height at 9 feet but was once a much larger object 2 storeys high. . My machine can’t pick up the other gifs DJ and Ray 76 posted.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Smoking Monkeys

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. Were they possibly a locally marketed object?

I don’t remember them at all.

I grew up on a small for 4.5 miles from a small tow, about 12 miles from a midwest berg of 40k.

[DoughtyOne]

...small farm...

[huldah1776]

Looks like a totem pole with line designs to me. It would take a long time to write any story in that language.

[smoothsailing]

I wonder if 11,000 years ago OVALTINE was the same horrible crap that it was in the 1950s.

[SteveH]

ggg ping

[Rastus]

Somewhere, an ISIS thug is looking for a map to this thing so he can destroy it.