"It is especially strange because the continuity of evidence is preserved from that eleven-hundred years ago to the modern era," she continued. "For example…"
She waved her hand, causing a variety of images to appear on screen.
They were images of old ruins, structures, pits, as well images of tools, weapons, and other primitive instruments fashioned from stone, bone, and plant fibers.
"There is large swath of evidence on what the continent was like roughly one thousand one hundred years ago," she remarked, gesturing to the images. "We underwent the Neolithic Revolution, shifting from hunter-gatherers to agriculture. From then on, a myriad of evidence along a smooth timeline demonstrate the increasing sophistication of our infrastructure and our tools as we began learning the power of esoteric substances that fueled our growth exponentially, allowing us to accelerate what would have otherwise been a much slower progress of development."