Question for the floor

[andrewducker]

So, how long in the past would a previous civilisation of, say, Mesopotamian levels have had to be for their to be no remaining sign of it? i.e. for any bronze tools to corrode away to nothing, pottery to do likewise.

How long will it take until Stonehenge is worn down to nothing by the wind and rain?

Comments

[andrewducker]

2-17,000 years clearly isn't long enough for all traces to vanish. I'm curious as to whether 150,000 years would be.

Not heard the Ethiopia thing. Got a link for it?

Oh, and did you notice you made the links page today?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I saw and thank you!

I've been distracted watching the people at metaquotes and sf_drama calling me a dudebro all day or I would have commented!

Here's a link to the tools thing

http://www.archaeology.org/9703/newsbriefs/tools.html

I only know about the tools because we are fairly close to the France cave drawings and people always ask if those are the oldest human remnants and then some smart alec always responds "No! Think of Ethiopia!"

[andrewducker]

Fascinating. More the tools of a stone age tribe than of a Mesopotamian-style civilisation, but definitely worth knowing about. Thanks!

What's going on over at metaquotes/sf_drama???

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

They've both decided I'm a "dudebro" and a "fratboy" because of my post a couple days ago where I joked that most insults are racist/sexist/ableist etc...

Then I made the mistake of trying to blow their minds by pointing out that I spend most of my day writing for gay and transgendered community and they went apeshit (though they had already gone apeshit on me anyway, so I'm mostly just becoming amused at their assumption that I'm some hypermasculine defender of the patriarchy."

My favorite part is that they took me seriously when I said that using the word "douche" is "hygienist."

http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7503111.html

http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/3172226.html

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Crikey.

That appears to be two mobs of angry stupid people looking for things to get excitedly self-righteous about.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

It is amusing me to no end.

I've now started telling them that their taunts are turning me on and begging them to 'whip me, beat me, make me disrespect the plight of the Native Americans."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

So I see.

It's like they've cargo-culted the techniques of the various -fail 'disputes' (complete with screencaps[1]. Why?) and are throwing them at anything that looks like a target.

I really am quite confused by it all.



[1] Because spidering is hard and/or a tool of the patriarchy, I guess.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Confusing to me too - but I have almost no work today yet needed to be in front of the computer in case work came in - and trying to mess with their minds has seriously helped pass the time.

I've also had 15 people add me as friends today.

The Internet is a weird fucking place.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I would be one of those fifteen...

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know any "Native Americans". Lots of (American) Indians, yes -- most of whom sing at least some pre-white-conquestn Songs and have some knowledge of their native language.