What interaction, if any, the person buried at Arlington Springs had with these animals is not known.

The Orr 1962 paper specifically stated that no artifacts were directly associated with the oldest bones — no spear points, no evidence of hunting or butchering — and that the burial context appeared to be accidental, a depositional event associated with the sediments near a cienaga, a wetland or marshy area.

The relationship between the first island humans and the pygmy mammoths is a question the evidence at Arlington Springs alone cannot answer.

The mammoths eventually went extinct, as did the mainland megafauna, at the end of the Pleistocene.