He was buried again, 2016 years into the Common Era, by people who care about him still.

The continuity between those two acts of care is the most important thing that the Spirit Cave case revealed — more important than any genomic finding, more durable than any scientific conclusion.

It revealed that some things endure across ten thousand years.

A people.

A place.

And the obligation that the living have always had toward the dead.

The Other Ancient Nevadans

The Spirit Cave Man did not stand alone in the archaeological record of ancient Nevada.