True, which is why I suspect Wayne is right about the engineers stumbling on the tech; they're imitating the Gods, I suspect this is the twist that was hinted at in a tweet. Heck, the urns have different alien text on them, so...
It'd be cool to see columns of bones and vertebrate in the familiar pattern, that could still look spectacular, I remember one of the artists tweeting or posting about visiting Giger's museum prior to working on the film.