In a message dated 8/20/99 1:50:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> we
> were told by the funeral director that there wouldn't be much left of my
> grandfather (the one who'd died 12 years earlier). I presume that the
> decomposition rate is somewhere in that range, which I guess makes for a
> half-life of deceased hominids of approximately 6 years
That just makes the "Bog Man" at the British Museum all the more remarkable.
-Heidi