The limitations of the Arlington Springs evidence deserve explicit treatment, because the find has sometimes been described in ways that exceed what the physical record supports.

There is no skull.

No face, no cranial structure, no features that would allow any reconstruction of the individual’s appearance.

Any artistic rendering of “Arlington Springs Man” is creative interpretation, not scientific recovery.

There is no full skeleton.

Two femora — and those not entirely complete — are the physical remains from which every conclusion must be drawn.

The total of bone material is small.

The biological profile that can be constructed from it — probable sex, approximate stature, general robusticity — is limited by the fragmentary nature of the evidence.