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Primer
Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.
I'm still not 100% certain what this is implying.
Geologic time periods tend to be very, very long. So if something is new in the geologic sense, it could still be thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years old.
Right, that was my first thought. But what is it that he's suggesting is only new geologically? Time travel tech?