It was not shown to be the oldest wooden statue.
Debated. The page gives two ages, and they do not agree.
At Shigir, in western Siberia, a larch-wood statue was found about 4 metres down in a peat bog. It was carved with tools made from beaver jaws. The page says it once stood about 5.3 metres tall. The part kept now is about 2.8 metres. The page says seven faces are carved on it, with lines, zigzags, and other marks. One line on the page says it is around 11,000 years old. Another says a radiocarbon test dated it to 7,500 BC.
People still argue what the marks mean. The page says none of them has been deciphered. Ideas on the page include a code, a map, and early writing.