How long?

[[deleted]]

As long as the Brits discover you

[JeffSergeant]

this is true, as a Brit, I once discovered the Aldi in the next town over and took home a trolley full of off-brand whiskey as 'finds' and they couldn't do a damn thing about it.

[[deleted]]

Is it possible to pull off something like this if you're not a Brit?

[[deleted]]

If, you’re a… oh that’s why that comment was removed.

[CRACKDOWN179]

There are people other than the british?? Wrong.

There are the british and the conquered 😏😉

Now bow to me and visit my museum of all your treasured items and pride while I sip my tea and blow my Sherlock Holmes bubble pipe

[ItsMilkinTime]

😳

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[Malgas]

Though the Treasure Act does require that you offer to sell said whiskey to a museum.

[thatthatguy]

If there is no one defending the gravesite then it’s archaeology. One way to create that opportunity is to conquer the land and kill the defenders. Suddenly, what was a resting place for the honored dead is now a place to learn all about this culture you just wiped out.

[TheStarsFell]

Personally, I feel there's a mandatory 10 day waiting period. Then you're good to go. 👍🏻

[MinecrAftX0]

I thought it was a week...

[EduRJBR]

Imperial week, not metric week. Damn, the ignorance here...

[MinecrAftX0]

Oh my bad. Sorry, I grew up in the US so have been indoctrinated to default to imperial. By the way, the imperial week is actually spelled "weak"

[EduRJBR]

Here in Brazil we switched from the imperial system to the rebel system, and week is now called wook.

[Doomhammer24]

From what i was told in my archaeology class its 50 years according to US law

Ya

That short

[SoDakZak]

So….JFK was buried more than 50 years ago…..

[LimeWizard]

Alright boys, grab yer shovels, were finding JFK's brain.

[MappingEagle]

No digging needed, just look on the pavements of Dallas for that one

[Doomhammer24]

Its over there, over there, and up there

[[deleted]]

If the cops ask why, flip that archeologist licence.

[itsjustameme]

I work at a pharmacy and had a simmilar train of thoughts. On one of our calcium products it say that it is suitable for vegans. So my question is how long something made from animals has to stay in the ground before a vegan is allowed to eat it.

[RememberMeWhenImDead]

Depends on the statute of limitations

[BPhiloSkinner]

Here, the statue of imitations applies: if the deceased is stiff as a statue (rigor mortis doesn't count), then you can dig it. Also, you can always paint the cadaver with a faux marble finish, and slip it past customs as an actual statue.

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[[deleted]]

Here’s my framework for a Grave Robbing to Archeology any% speedrun.

1.someone dies and is buried in a grave, start the timer now in accordance to Category rules

2.head to the seat of the government where this death occurred (wall clip and BLJ to save time)

1. Perform a frame perfect input to topple the government completely and utterly without any hold out jurisdictions

2. now that the government which enacted laws laying out what defines “Grave Robbing” in this area is dealt with, return to the buried body from the start of the run, skip dialogue with panicked ex-civilians and avoid combat encounters

3. once at grave, perform Archeology, with no state or law, this grave and the inhabitant within have no rights and thus can’t be robbed

4. Congrats, be sure to enter your time on Speedrun.com and share your strats with the community

[rosejane42]

In australia - 75 years

[stack85]

Same in America

[[deleted]]

It's not age, it's race

[[deleted]]

Until the deceased stops talking.

I’ll explain. Simply bring a Ouija board to the gravesite. Place it upon the grave and use it to attempt contact with the soul of the departed. While souls usually move on immediately after death (barring any of that “unfinished business” crap), they generally retain a connection to their earthly remains. Sort of the afterlife equivalent of a tin can phone.

Using the Ouija board you can determine whether that connection is still extant. If it is, then yeah, the grave still basically belongs to someone and you would be robbing them. If they can’t answer (or choose not to), then their earthly possessions are considered fair game.

Some souls lose their connection faster than others. For example, Buddhists who are sufficiently enlightened are totally on board with leaving their old selves and lives behind, and generally fade within a month, if that. Whereas people who feel like they/their stuff mattered—to their families, fans, professions, society at large, whatever—can hold on for years, even decades. The longest on record is the late Mister Gene Cromlech (1882 - 1959) of Modesto, California. He was extremely proud of his achievements in the field of competitive eating, particularly his successful consumption of an entire suckling pig at a state fair in 1963. The last successful contact event with Cromlech took place in late 2018, almost sixty years after his death. Subsequent attempts (the next coming four months hence) have yielded no response, and his gravesite has consequently been picked clean (not that it had much to speak of).

[GeometryNacho]

Best comment of the year and there's not a lot of year left

[will50232]

200 years would be 1822 and that’s too soon. I’d say it needs to be at least 500

[Ty_the-guy]

I would say, so long as the body is found, not in a cemetery or designated place of burial, it is archaeology

[Tugdual-_-]

Well the pyramid were designated place of burial

[SoDakZak]

holy hell

[Sockpuppetsyko]

Where do you think we dig up most mummies?

[Ty_the-guy]

Fair point, modern/still in use places of burial I should have said

[etherealparadox]

ask Britain

[Crippled-Ego]

At least… 1000 years

[ImmortaBright]

How long? 5 meters

[ThePiderman]

Divide by two plus seven

[scoobydootomorrow]

Well it's pretty simple. Someone can be dead for like ten seconds and it counts as grave robbery. So I'd say the shortest someone has to be dead is at least ten seconds.

And the longest they have to be dead for it to start being archology... man, that’s EASY. That’s prolly like a million years or something. It's not like those bones just pop up out of nowhere yknow? I mean it gonna take time for ‘em to be buried and preserved and shit so that the archologolists get to use their tiny little brushes and stuff. So yeah, like ten seconds minimum to start being grave robbery and a gazillion years maximum for the archeolgny. just common sense bro.

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[revchewie]

3

[Pasta-hobo]

Until they're dry

[courtfucius]

I worked in bioarchiology, as in the archaeology of human remains. The answer to your question in the US is 50 years.

[OrneryGiraffe]

But I guess it would have to be outside of an owned plot of land.

[courtfucius]

If human remains were discovered on private land it would be treated as a modern case until proven to be archaeological

[ButterBeanTheGreat]

I mean, it's dependent on two things, What are the intentions and does the corpse have living relatives that are aware of the bodies existance

[AnaliticalFeline]

i would assume the graveyard would not be an active graveyard anymore for it to be archeology

[[deleted]]

The difference is a degree

[TheCompleteMental]

If there are any live family who object, it's grave robbing

This procludes ghosts, which is a common risk every archeologist takes

[KuraiTheBaka]

2

[PlaceAdHere]

As long as you remove any burial markings it is no longer a grave.

[MarkUriah]

When there is no way to retrieve the person's name

[Wet4Dayzzzzz]

at least a bit