I put the question into Google. The following was the brief reply 'From 50 years in the tissues will have liquefied and disappeared, leaving behind mummified skin and tendons. Between 50 to 80 years the skin and tendons too will disintegrate. After 80 years the bones will crack as the soft collagen inside them deteriorates, leaving nothing but the brittle mineral frame behind. That does assume a secure burial and no movement, and that no creature comes along to hasten the decline of the remains because they are hungry and the remains seem like a nutritious meal.
Unrecycled humans are not on this list ;-)
ReplyDeleteI put the question into Google. The following was the brief reply 'From 50 years in the tissues will have liquefied and disappeared, leaving behind mummified skin and tendons. Between 50 to 80 years the skin and tendons too will disintegrate. After 80 years the bones will crack as the soft collagen inside them deteriorates, leaving nothing but the brittle mineral frame behind. That does assume a secure burial and no movement, and that no creature comes along to hasten the decline of the remains because they are hungry and the remains seem like a nutritious meal.
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