If humans got extinct, what evidence of our civilization would surive?

**Peterski** · 09-02-2016, 12:22 PM

Interesting documentary. It shows how quickly most of evidence of our civilization would disappear:

It claims that after 10,000 years, only few structures would be still recognizable on Earth's surface.

Such as:

- Mount Rushmore - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore
- the Hoover Dam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
- the Great Pyramid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
- the Great Wall of China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
- possibly the Great Anti-Mexican Wall of Trump too (if he really builds one)

Archaeological remains in the ground & human skeletons/fossils would survive for the longest time.

**Peterski** · 09-02-2016, 12:55 PM

The aluminum apex from the Washington Monument will also survive for a very long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washin...#Aluminum_apex

**~~Linebacker~~** · 09-02-2016, 01:26 PM

I've watched those too,they are seriously over-dramatizing with how fast the vegitation will consume our buildings.

And if we get wiped out by nuclear war pretty much everything will be visible,ain't nothing going to be growing to hide it for a long time.

Ülev · 09-02-2016, 01:50 PM

it sounds like Lyssyi production

**Kazimiera** · 09-02-2016, 01:52 PM

All that will remain is the plastic we have littered the earth and sea with.

Ülev · 09-02-2016, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Kazimiera

All that will remain is the plastic we have littered the earth and sea with.

no

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-plas...ing-revolution

**~~N1019~~** · 09-02-2016, 02:22 PM

There would be a huge amount of evidence for thousands of years. If we can find evidence of iron, bronze, stone age and prehistoric human activity, and even traces of completely decomposed wooden buildings from 1500 years ago, a great deal of our activity would leave its mark for millennia to come, especially to another highly intelligent species, which might consider us to be pathetic and deeply flawed.