This is one of the broader lessons of the Shuká Káa discovery: that the scientific value of archaeological materials grows as analytical methods improve.

Materials collected with the care and the contextual documentation that professionals applied to the On Your Knees Cave excavation become more valuable, not less, as time passes and new methods become available.

The documentation of context — the stratigraphic position of the remains, the associated materials, the specific cave location — that was established at the time of discovery remains essential for interpreting every subsequent analysis.

Future methods will likely be able to extract still more information from the same materials.