The desert stretches in every direction.

The mountains rise to the west where the ancient lake once reflected the sky.

And the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe — the community that fought for two decades for the right to bring their ancestor home — is still here.

They have always been here.

The genome of a man who died before the pyramids were built said so.

The Wheeler Legacy And What Good Documentation Does

There is a dimension of the Spirit Cave story that deserves more attention than it typically receives: the specific scientific value of the documentation that Georgia and Sidney Wheeler produced in 1940.