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Or, we have multiple anatomy textbooks [0] from before the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_textbooks

IIRC there's a common cultural tendency to put a lot of stock in the magical powers of exotic foreign wizards, so divination might not be such a bad explanation at all.

Yeah I think to calibrate you should probably look to Native American words that made it into English — place names, local foods and wildlife, cultural items. Those are going to be your substrate borrowings for most languages.

> such a random corpus

I see what you did there