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If this were to happen today now much evidence would be find of our current civilisations? Would archeologists be able to figure out our cities?
by 12907835202 4y ago
If this were to happen today now much evidence would be find of our current civilisations? Would archeologists be able to figure out our cities?
- nerdponx 4y agoI get the impression that there might not be any archaeologists left after such an event.
- tempestn 4y agoA few humans might survive. If not, there might be other archaeologists, eventually...
- outworlder 4y agoNot likely, if we are talking about millions of years. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/june-30-2018-a-comet-from-the-stars-microbiome-and-arthritis-polar-bear-treadmill-and-more-1.4724524/fossils-of-our-civilization-what-humans-will-leave-behind-1.4724531 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/june-30-2018-a-comet-from-th...
- yodon 4y agoAsking how you could tell if Dinosaurs had a civilization like ours used to be a standard Geology Dept. PhD orals question. Their cities would of course be long long, so that's not a productive search area. The answer is you'd look at the distribution of minerals. If they built cities with skyscrapers they would have had to mine the materials required to make them. There is no evidence the Dinosaurs exploited their available mineral sources but millions of years from now there will still be ample evidence that we did.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoOf course this also means that pre-industrial civilizations are completely undetectable after several million years.