The canyon is still there.

The spring still flows.

The channel is still wide.

The island is still surrounded by the same Pacific.

And the bones, after their long journey through science and time, have returned to the island that kept them for thirteen thousand years.

The Stratigraphy As Story — Reading Time In Sediment

The 37-foot depth of the Arlington Springs femora is not an incidental detail.

It is, in fact, the first piece of evidence that Orr had for the age of the remains — even before a single radiocarbon measurement was made.