Timeline for How long would it take a body to decay and the bones to fall to the ground from a tree?
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| Jan 26, 2019 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 15, 2019 at 17:00 | comment | added | mgarciaisaia | Hi, kids! Don't try this at home. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 22:20 | comment | added | Richard | You might find this interesting; Creepy photos show horse's skeleton in a tree beside River Aire in Leeds. This horse skeleton appears to have been wedged in the tree branches for long enough for it to have entirely decayed to bare bones | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 20:02 | comment | added | elemtilas | I think they'd still be pretty fresh, though. @MartinBonner | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 16:55 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @elemtilas I am pretty sure that gibbeting was the display of previously executed criminals, rather than leaving them to die. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | Chuu | Scavengers are one thing, but maggots and other insects would make short work of the body long before microorganism and chemistry cause the body to fall apart. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 11:41 | comment | added | Chris H | @elemtilas in the case of gibbeting in England the only scavengers were birds and not huge ones (corvids and red kites, rather than vultures) nd the bodies were secured enough to require them to break up quite a bit before much would fall. In other places there would have been larger scavengers more capable of breaking off limbs etc. That woudl speed things up a lot, this (@ Stephen) you need to consider what's scavenging the corpses | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:41 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 5:58 | vote | accept | Stephen | ||
| Jan 14, 2019 at 5:25 | answer | added | Mazura | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 3:44 | answer | added | a4android | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 2:35 | comment | added | Stephen | All, parts, most, just generally when would it start to break apart. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 2:32 | comment | added | John | to be clear d you need the whole thing to fall down or just parts, or just most of it? | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 1:24 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 1:20 | comment | added | elemtilas | In that case, @StephenBurgos definitely check into gibbeting. That's where people used to be locked into hanging cages until they died and their rotted corpses fell through the bars of the cage. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 1:10 | history | edited | Stephen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2019 at 1:05 | comment | added | Mark Olson | You can get something beyond speculation if you can find details of historical gibbiting -- the public display of the bodies of dead criminals. In many cases they were allowed to decay away completely. It took more than a few days. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 1:04 | comment | added | elemtilas | What's holding it to the tree? A large scavenger could knock it down in a couple minutes. Is it hanging (from the neck)? Is it stuffed into a secure notch? | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 0:57 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 35 | |
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