After extraterrestrial contact forces scientists to reconsider a roughly six-thousand-year-old archaeological anomaly, Jean Munro and her team discover that an object containing physics beyond modern Earth’s capabilities was not a weapon, engine, or sacred device, but a broken child’s toy — evidence that the ancient Gaian colonies on Earth were homes as well as outposts.
Topic: Archaeology
Dr. Jean Munro
Munro is the scientist who keeps looking after others decide they know what an object is for; her intellectual movement parallels Earth’s movement from threat/utility toward culture and relationship.