Or detectives struggling to make sense of the ancient world based on tiny scraps of clues that have managed by sheer chance to survive for hundreds of thousands of years, usually in an altered state. Advances over the past few decades have made it very clear that our understanding of the distant past is fragmentary and subject to change as new evidence comes to light. It might be best in game terms to assume that there will be further surprises in archaeology in the distant future, revealing evidence of ancient H. Sapiens 300,000 years ago, rather than trying to pin things to our present evolving knowledge base.
