That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.
VOA: standard.2009.12.24
The skeletons in Total Recall were done by digitizing a humanskeleton and then matching the motion to the movement of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Theskeleton, as human remains, has no monetary value and is currently at Bournemouth University but will be reunited with the other artefacts when they are sold.
The search turned up traces of the building, and then something altogether more exciting: A humanskeleton, complete with evidence of battle wounds -- a blow to the head, and an arrow in the back -- and scoliosis, or curvature of the spine.