The person who died on that island 13,000 years ago was returned, in some sense, to the landscape to which they had come so long before.

What A Single Find Cannot And Cannot Prove

The Arlington Springs individual occupies an unusual position in North American prehistory: a single fragmentary find whose significance is disproportionate to the physical evidence it consists of.

Two femoral fragments are a thin basis for continental claims.

They cannot support identification of a specific cultural affiliation, a genetic lineage, a migration route, or a subsistence strategy.

They tell us that one person was present on one island approximately 13,000 years ago and that the island required a water crossing to reach.