Talk about overthinking it.
I hope this chick is trapped on a snowed in Greyhound bus with only a copy of Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney to read.
Yup—using year 2025 science to analyze what is going on eight thousand years later is not going to go well.
Imagine primitive tribes in 6,000 B.C. trying to explain cell phones.
“No animals look like that. Therefore this thing is useless.”