{"id":12209,"date":"2018-04-28T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2018-04-28T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:01:59","slug":"oldest-wooden-sculpture-is-11-500-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/oldest-wooden-sculpture-is-11-500-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest wooden sculpture is 11 500 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wooden sculpture known as the Shigir Idol has been carbon dated, giving us a better idea of how old it is &#8212; and it turns out it&#8217;s twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids. It was discovered by gold miners in&nbsp;1894 and it&#8217;s amazing it&#8217;s survived as much as it has. More details, including photos, are on LiveScience here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62404-shigir-idol-age-and-new-face.html\">This Eerie, Human-Like Figure Is Twice As Old As Egypt&#8217;s Pyramids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wooden sculpture known as the Shigir Idol has been carbon dated, giving us a better idea of how old it is &#8212; and it turns out it&#8217;s twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids. It was discovered by gold miners in&nbsp;1894 and it&#8217;s amazing it&#8217;s survived as much as it has. More details, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-12209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12210,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions\/12210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}