if an archeologist five hundred years from now digs up your remains, what would they find that is unique to u?

Question

what would they be able to say about what your hobbies were, what kind of food you ate, what kind of music you listened to, etc?

Answer 1

Your assuming I'm dead and buried in 500 hundred years.

I'd prefer to tell him in person, see you then!

Answer 2

Good question. For a start, the DNA, which would likely be retrievable, and bones would provide an indication of your ancestral heritage, physical characteristics, and any heritable diseases you may have had. Also mutational damage to DNA, and wear on the bones will provide an indication of the physical conditions you encountered during your life.

Trying to think ahead of what's going on now - it's probable that your remains will retain chemical signatures which we are getting better at reading. Comparisons could use radioactive and non-radioactive istope ratios, heavy metals (such as lead, mercury and cadmium and levels of even rarer elements. Variations in many elements indicate local geology or society's resource use.

Types of diets may change the composition of elements retained in the bones. Also where you happen to be standing during your life will leave a circumstantial signature - the gasses you inhale, in which different chemicals are churned up in different circumstances. The radioactive isotope Caesium-137 is used to date sediments, for example. This isotope provides a a shortyard stick time as it was (alarmingly) thrown into the atmosphere with the first generation of nuclear tests starting in the 1940s, and is gradually decaying.

At the moment cataclysmic events, e.g. a volcanic eruption, massive destruction of buildings are being examined for associated biotic signatures. As science could progress astronomically in 500 years, the extent to which we could then read chemical signatures in human remains is a real challenge for the imagination.

Answer 3

They can determine when I die in exact year or even month using Dating (think it's called the Carbon Dating). Base on my bone structure, they can determine my sex, my height, even ethnicity, of course DNA from bone. Also, by looking at my bone, can also determine my health condition, any operations that might have done on me, which can tell by the scar from the bone if there are any. If I preserved by the soil well enough, can even determine my last meal, cause of dead, Of course, find out what is the location like 500 years ago can tell you whole a lot more about me. The way how I buried can tell you about my culture, how rich or poor I was. Or just murdered by someone perhaps. That's all I can think of for now.

Answer 4

Wow good question they would be able to say that my hobbies are inproving myself and creating things,I´m not a picky eater I eat food as long as it taste good,my favorite band is the Beatles,I hope on changing the world and becoming super famous,I plan to give 50% of my money or more to charities,and everyone would know my name and if they found my remains it´ll be worth alot of money.

Answer 5

How would they know what kind of music I listened to from my remains? Do you mean, just our bodies or our bodies and belongings? Anyway, if they were to dig up my remains, what is somewhat unique to me is that I have five dental implants. I can tell from x-rays I've seen of myself that it's quite interesting looking - five Home Depot-looking screws drilled into my jawbone...

Answer 6

I am fiarly certain that this information could not be obtained from bones, which is just about all that would be left after 500 years.

Answer 7

That I had the Star Trek insignia laser etched into my tibial bone.

Extrapolate my hobbies from that.

Answer 8

I don't know if they'd let one of my traditional English Longbows be buried with my ashes, so probably nothing.

Answer 9

if i'm buried it will be confusing.