Whilst these may seem old, for some perspective - statues have been dated back to 35-40k years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man https://en.wikipedia

Whilst these may seem old, for some perspective - statues have been dated back to 35-40k years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man So one wonders what is still to be found, what was lost to sea level changes or other climate erosion over time. But the level of craftsmanship old times long past still amazes me as the skills to achieve that was far more common in those times as a percentage of the populous than it is today. Which as tools developed, we have shifted that level of hand craftsmanship towards expensive art today. Equally, one wonders what structures we build today would still be around in an equally period of time - building wise, not many that spring to mind and even then, not sure how the ravages of time would effect them. Certainly a large exercise but I wonder if anybody has done any climate modelling for that kind of duration and how today's monuments around the world would endure. Makes you wonder what would be left as even plastics would break down after 500 years - let alone 8,000 or 40,000 years from now.