Animals were clearly in the area of the tracks around 1000 B.C. This lends support to both the notion that animal-drawn carts made these tracks, and that these tracks were made in 1000 B.C.

We don’t care what the tracks connect. We care how they were created in the first place.

We have no idea if that terrain is the terrain around the tracks. And even if that terrain is more easily traversed on foot, carts may still have passed over it.

We have no idea if animal-drawn carts constitute “innovation.” Besides, the Maltese could’ve received this technology from elsewhere.

We care about the tracks. We don’t care what happened to certain settlements, especially because we don't know whether those settlements were related to the tracks.