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[escardos]

hey guys! happy vday and stuff! quick q!

how much time needs to pass for grave robbing to become archaeology? like, if i pull a gold bracelet out of a pyramid, i've made an archaeological find. if i pull one out of the common graveyard, i'm a dick. whats the waiting period for looting the dead?

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un: werther

[imitationsoul]

I don't believe there is a hard line. It depends on two things:

1. How well you make your argument, because the art of speech is really what makes or breaks a social construct.

2. What kind of events have occurred since the death of the person. Normally it would be frowned upon to open the casket of someone who died only 20 years ago, but imagine Nightfall occurred and left humanity with only very few survivors. Knowledge of the old world would wind up being lost much faster, raising the value of sepulchral culture at a much greater speed!

[escardos]

totally agree! i'd also have to say that money probably has a lot to do with it too, since you can probably buy your way into and out of most situations, huh?

but i think it'd be fun, no? like, imagine we all turn to dust bc of nightfall or some other horrible catastrophe...i think it'd be super cool for our survivors to take the scraps that remain from our lives and study them under a microscope.