Jag tror att du tänker på "Uppståndelse" aka "The Monster", en känd novell av A. E. van Vogt som också var svaret på den här gamla frågan och den här och den här och den här och < a href="https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19976/a-short-story-from-1968-1971-about-alien-archeologists-re-animating-human-remain"> den här ; först publicerad i Förvånande Science Fiction , augusti 1948 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv . Van Vogts utomjordingar är emellertid inte "antropologer", de letar efter planeter för att kolonisera. Och de besöker inte olika jordar; de besöker en jord, i den långa framtiden, och återuppliva en död jordgubbe efter den andra, i kronologisk ordning, från en egyptisk mamma. Deras syfte är att ta reda på vad som orsakade livets massutrotning på jorden, innan de flyttade sitt eget folk.
En utomjordisk ras (antropologer) besöker jorden och hittar allt liv utdöd. De hittar ett sätt att återskapa livet upp till en viss punkt i tidigare tidslinje.
"Do you think we ought to use our method of reviving the long dead?"
Youl was thoughtful. "I have been asking questions of the various people who have landed, and there is something wrong here. This planet has no surviving life, not even insect life. We'll have to find out what happened before we risk any colonization."
När de flyttar rekreationsplatsen närmare och närmare dagens, möter de mer avancerade människor. De ursprungliga människorna är förvirrade,
A man blinked, and opened his eyes.
"It is true, then," he said aloud, and the words were translated into the Ganae tongue as he spoke them. "Death is merely an opening into another life—but where are my attendants?" At the end, his voice took on a complaining tone.
He sat up, and climbed out of the case, which had automatically opened as he came to life. He saw his captors. He froze, but only for a moment. He had a pride and a very special arrogant courage, which served him now. Reluctantly, he sank to his knees and made obeisance, but doubt must have been strong in him. "Am I in the presence of the gods of Egyptus?" He climbed to his feet. "What nonsense is this? I do not bow to nameless demons."
De senare kan förstå situationen lättare
The third man sat up, and looked at them thoughtfully. "From the stars?" he said finally. "Have you a system, or was it blind chance?"
The Ganae councilors in that domed room stirred uneasily in their curved chairs. Enash caught Yoal's eye on him. The shock in the historian's eyes alarmed the meteorologist. He thought: "The two-legged one's adjustment to a new situation, his grasp of realities, was unnormally rapid. No Ganae could have equalled the swiftness of his reaction."
och den senaste / senaste förstår hela situationen i ögonkastet och försvinner omedelbart (följaktligen kommer utlänningens kontroll).
Captain Gorsid waved at the biologist, "Proceed," he said, "with the revival."
To Enash, he said, "Do we dare return to Gana, and recommend mass migrations—and then admit that we did not actually complete our investigations here? It's impossible, my friend."
It was the old argument, but reluctantly now Enash admitted there was something to be said for that point of view. He forgot that, for the fourth man was stirring.
The man sat up and vanished.
There was a blank, startled, horrified silence. Then Captain Gorsid said harshly, "He can't get out of there. We know that. He's in there somewhere."
All around Enash, the Ganae were out of their chairs, peering into the energy shell. The guards stood with ray guns held limply in their suckers. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw one of the protective screen technicians beckon to Veed, who went over. He came back grim. "I'm told the needles jumped ten points when he first disappeared. That's on the nucleonic level."
"By ancient Ganae!" Shuri whispered. "We've run into what we've always feared."