Timeline for What story involves archeologists in the future that study the 20th century?
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| Jul 29 at 2:38 | comment | added | John Boston | There was a novel titled 43,000 YEARS LATER by Horace Coon, one of the less distinguished Signet original paperbacks from 1958 or so, never reissued to my knowledge and generally regarded as pretty bad. It involved extraterrestrial archaeologists trying to figure out a defunct human civilization. I didn't read it so can't comment on whether it's an answer. There's a synopsis at goodreads.com/en/book/show/8110636-43-000-years-later . | |
| May 13, 2021 at 18:07 | history | unprotected | Buzz | ||
| Nov 29, 2018 at 15:29 | history | protected | TheLethalCarrot♦ | ||
| Nov 4, 2017 at 3:43 | answer | added | Evelyn | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 14:52 | comment | added | Otis | possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162247/… | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 20:32 | comment | added | user47833 | I remember a book with a title or sub-title that was something like "23,000 Years Later" that kind of fits the description but I can not find that one, either. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 17:13 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | There's a well-known essay called "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" with this theme. It's quite possible it may have inspired a novel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 16:15 | answer | added | Nelson Raymond Sulouff | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 19:56 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 22:44 | history | edited | Graeme Perrow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | user56 | I'm sure that this theme has been done over and over. I know I've read plenty of stories where the writer's present is interpreted in a hilariously wrong manner by future people (human or not, professional archeologists or not). Is this a short story or a novel? What else does your mother remember? Is this happening on Earth or off? Are there aliens? What specific artifacts are dug up? Any detail you can add, even if it's tentative, can help pin down that story. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 17:47 | comment | added | Tango | While it doesn't sound quite like this, I would like to point out this might describe "Canticle for Leibowitz." | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 15:54 | answer | added | Bill Nace | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 8:30 | answer | added | TML | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 5:09 | comment | added | apoorv020 | I remember a short story like this, but it had aliens digging up human artifacts. They find a mickey mouse cartoon, and think that's what we looked like. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 4:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/118173484852588544 | ||
| Sep 26, 2011 at 1:56 | history | asked | Graeme Perrow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |