{"id":121833,"date":"2021-04-22T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/this-wooden-sculpture-is-twice-as-old-as-stonehenge-and-the-pyramids"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:20:05","slug":"this-wooden-sculpture-is-twice-as-old-as-stonehenge-and-the-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/this-wooden-sculpture-is-twice-as-old-as-stonehenge-and-the-pyramids","title":{"rendered":"This Wooden Sculpture Is Twice as Old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-wooden-sculpture-is-twice-as-old-as-stonehenge-and-the-pyramids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Times<\/em> reports, researchers have been puzzling over the age of the Shigir sculpture for decades. The debate has major implications for the study of prehistory, which tends to emphasize a Western-centric view of human development.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Russian scientists carbon-dated the totem pole to about 9500 years ago. Many in the scientific community rejected these findings as implausible: Reluctant to believe that hunter-gatherer communities in the Urals and Siberia had created art or formed cultures of their own, says Terberger to the <em>Times<\/em><em>,<\/em> researchers instead presented a narrative of human evolution that centered European history, with ancient farming societies in the Fertile Crescent eventually sowing the seeds of Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Prevailing views over the past century, adds Terberger, regarded hunter-gatherers as \u201cinferior to early agrarian communities emerging at that time in the Levant. At the same time, the archaeological evidence from the Urals and Siberia was underestimated and neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Times reports, researchers have been puzzling over the age of the Shigir sculpture for decades. The debate has major implications for the study of prehistory, which tends to emphasize a Western-centric view of human development. In 1997, Russian scientists carbon-dated the totem pole to about 9500 years ago. Many in the scientific community [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}