After flying for miles, the bird●1 gathered her breath as she perched on top of what seemed to be a mysterious fragment of an archeological artifact●2 belonging to an ancient dam structure.1 The bird sanctuary surrounding the artifact had been a permanent region for generations and every part of reed beds and rocks was memorable.2 But on this particular day, this unfamiliar ancient artifact emerging from the wet ground caught her eye, inviting pause. Despite a long and deliberate examination, the artifact seemed so foreign and unnatural that the bird could not even begin to fathom what purpose it had served or why it had existed on this particular landscape in the first place.3