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My thoughts go to things that either don't decay or decay extremely slowly. If I chunk it out somewhere and it's still there in 1000 years, it's manmade. A caveat to this is if it naturally occurs, i.e. radioactive elements
This feels closer to the solution, but again a mountain is natural, but will be there for 1000 years.
You can point at a mountain, and at what is not mountain, but you can't point to where the mountain stops being mountain.