The beaver teeth cut the wooden doll 10,000 years

The 10,000-year-old wooden doll statue in Siberia is carved with a unique tool grinding from beaver teeth.

Scientists discovered a giant doll statue of 10,000-year-old Shigir in Siberia that is trimmed with tools made from beaver teeth, International Business Times reported yesterday.

The Stone Age Shigir doll, discovered in 1894 in a study in the Shigir area in the Ural Mountains, Siberia. With a height of 5.3 m, the wooden statue has 7 faces, a stereoscopic face engraving on the top and 6 other faces on the doll's body and legs.

When learning about the ancient tools used to shape Shigir dolls, scientists found that the last 7 faces were carved onto the doll with the most unusual tool."They use some very interesting tools, made from the lower half of the beaver, " said Mikhail Zhilin, a researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The oldest wooden Shigir statue in the world is 5.3 m high.(Photo: Siberian Times.)

Beaver teeth are the ideal tool to trim wood, according to Zhilin."If you sharpen the teeth of a beaver, you'll have a very convenient tool for carving concave surfaces , " Zhilin said.

Although dating back to twice the age of the Egyptian pyramid, the oldest wooden statue in this world existed in a relatively short time. Ancient people cut a pine tree about 160 years old and cut it into a doll shape and built it on a stone pillar. The statue existed only 50 years before falling into a peat swamp.

This peat swamp is the ideal place to preserve wooden statues for thousands of years, because it has very low oxygen and high acidity, killing all bacteria can cause rotting objects.

The Shigir Idol doll is on display in the Sverdlovsk Provincial Museum in Yekaterinburg, Siberia, Russia."This is a masterpiece, with emotional value and great strength. This sculpture is very unique, there is no other similar version in the world. The statue is very lively and complex, " Zhilin received. review