We do not know whether Spirit Cave was used only for burial or whether it was a place his community used for other purposes.

We do not know what the people who buried him believed about where he was going, or what the moccasins on his feet were meant to help him do when he got there.

These are the questions that no genome, however complete, can answer.

They are the questions that only oral tradition, accumulated cultural knowledge, and the ongoing living practice of communities descended from his people might have some capacity to address — not through scientific analysis but through the specific ways in which knowledge passes from one generation to the next in communities that have maintained that transmission across many thousands of years.

The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe knows things about the Great Basin landscape that no laboratory analysis can produce.