WHAT WILL OUR DESCENDANTS KNOW ABOUT US?

摘要

When humans in the far future are piecing together a picture of the primitive civilisation of 2012,archaeology will surely be the best way to go about it. After all, the best libraries, archives and museums can be undone by a single fire, amply illustrated by the fate of the library of Alexandria.So what will archaeologists working 100,000 years from now discover about us? Only the luckiest of artefacts will avoid being crushed, scattered, recycled or decomposed. You, personally, will almost certainly leave nothing behind that survives that long.