Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
by stavarotti on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:23PM
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Every time I see artifacts like these I can’t help but think whether we are producing artifacts that will be discovered 10000 years into the future, and still be in a robust state.
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Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
by throwup238 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:03PM
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Oh a LOT will still be around in ten thousand years, especially if climate change causes a lot of desertification. The oldest Egyptian papyrus is almost 4,600 years old and that’s just papyrus, an organic material that doesn’t survives very long in more humid climates.
Ten thousand years isn’t very much in geological timescales, not enough to bury everything and crush it to dust so anything that gets left in a landfill (and not harvested in the future) has a chance of surviving. Anything made of noble metals like gold and platinum especially, so it’ll mostly be a question of how much is thrown away versus recycled.
Our modern middens will be full of artifacts.
Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
by CognitiveLens on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:42PM
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There are definitely projects designed with the specific intent of doing that, e.g. https://longnow.org/clock/
But there are other things, including awesome-and-dangerous nuclear waste sites, with warning messages/symbols designed to last beyond the collapse of modern civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
by analog31 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:18PM
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The Disney copyrights will still be around.
Re:The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
by ahazred8ta on Sunday August 17, 2025 @11:14PM
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You can leave your own kiln fired clay tablet. https://dumbcuneiform.com