Previously Frozen

Probably.

He might, likely, find her extremely youthful for her age, although not necessarily be too surprised by that.

What, or how happen what happens next, the operating factors likely are, from where he's from? 10k years aren't all that much.

Human form hasn't changed. Apart of potentially severe immunology problems he would likely have, from deadly common cold, to hundreds of other pathogen we treat as harmless background, there's little physical difference or surprise. Actually, late pre-agricultural revolution peoples may potentially appear more "modern" than later centuries in settled societies when human overall health collapsed.

Culture, it's time just a little predating the dawn of recorded history, but it's already historical timescale. Material culture is very rich in many (most) places, and the emerging societies broadly not at all that different from us. Well, there's quite a lot of variation to select from and lots of space to invent into culture and behavior models as desired if none existing and described (likely inaccurately by biased scientists) are fitting to the point to what's desired.

10k years ago is, broadly, just about when the previous 100k years of tedious work in grain selection made settled lifestyle, extended social structure and large scale wealth concentrations possible. We have first cities, megalithic architecture, and lots of relative wilderness free peasant could settle on its own, or seemingly endless steppes roaming herders could travel unimpeded... as long their family is able to stand they ground in battle. We already have traders crossing continents and navigating seas with rare goods from far away legendary places. The man himself may be not aware of most of it, but in whole, there's hardly a concept unknown to his world in whole.

Language would be a bit of problem initially though. There's very little chance of a near common language. All while linguists would be delighted to hear him speak, likely killing multitudes of theories on the spot, especially in the unlikely case he would happen to speak some of the better "known" prehistoric language(s). Even vedic sanskrit likely has yet to energe, and even if a claim the structure of Baltic dialects could already exist wouldn't be that insane, the vocabulary differences would render his language unintelligible anyhow. Someone, or everyone, will have to learn.
 
How the research assistant comes into work the next day.
 
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He might not consider her pretty, much too skinny and the hips to narrow for child bearing. He probably thinks, she would last long in drought and die when giving birth.
 
That was the bit they did on Saturday Night Live (many many years ago), how they unfroze a caveman after thousands of years, and he became a lawyer. He would wind up his speech to the jury with "I'm just a caveman, but even I can see that <name of defendant> is innocent of these charges!!"

I'm not saying it was funny, but that was the bit. Phil Hartman was the caveman/lawyer.
 
Imagine they managed to thaw out a 10,000 year old man. Would he be instantly horny for the female scientist?
Not instantly, no.

As others have pointed out, he'd probably think she doesn't look like a viable mate for a number of reasons, and would most likely think she just looks really weird - her clothing style would be completely different for one, hygiene too, she may also wear glasses if you're going for a classic "hot scientist" look that would be utterly bizarre to this guy.

The question then becomes, how does this guy go from having those initial thoughts to wanting to sleep with her?
 
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