Timeline for How to share knowledge to a future human civilization who doesn't know our languages?
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| Sep 8, 2016 at 7:01 | comment | added | xDaizu | @immibis I don't know if archaeologists do dig in places with mildly elevated radiation levels (probably not since that's not a thing for past civilizations), but as soon as the civilization is aware of radiation, someone will dig up this places to see what's going on, and when they find the pottery, they will call the archaeologists. By the 3rd time this happens, they will pick up the pattern and start actively searching for other such locations. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 4:40 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @nigel222 Do modern archaeologists dig in places with mildly elevated radiation levels? | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 13:46 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 13:06 | history | edited | nigel222 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:14 | comment | added | nigel222 | @JDlugosz have the exhibits that were in museums in Bagdhad, Mosul and Damascus fared well of late? If you want information to carry across one or more dark ages, I am convinced that buried pottery is the best bet. It won't be removed from holes in the ground until archaeology is once again a science. Mildly radioactive location markers might be a good addition. | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:09 | comment | added | nigel222 | @roipoussiere you are assuming that in 10,000 years, civilisation will be maintained. If there is a collapse, a metal book may have greater value to an illiterate as a raw material than as an incomprehensible text. Broken crockery will not (or if recycled as hardcore, it may still preserve its information content). | |
| S Sep 6, 2016 at 21:32 | history | suggested | roipoussiere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | roipoussiere | Agree with the idea that the Rosetta stone will not work in this scenario, btw. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 19:24 | comment | added | roipoussiere | Old civilizations have written on clay because they did not have got better. A book written in metal will not be treated as sorcery, because our current civilization uses it a lot. I think archeology in 10.000 years will be very difficult since we will let after us a big very durable trash, so get useful data will be a big challenge. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | JDługosz | In Benford’s Deep Time he points out that you want the monuments carted off to put into museums. So the Rosetta stone or key or whatever was small enough, not cemented down, and present in several copies. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 17:56 | history | answered | nigel222 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |