The hunter’s identity is unrecoverable.

Their community, language, and cultural tradition are unrecoverable.

Whether this was an isolated encounter or part of a regular practice of mastodon hunting in the region is unknown from this evidence alone.

Whether other mastodon hunts occurred elsewhere on the Olympic Peninsula or in the broader Pacific Northwest during the same period is a question that only future discoveries can address.

The broader question of how the first Americans — whoever they were, however many founding migrations there were, whatever routes they took — arrived in the Western Hemisphere and spread across it is not resolved by Manis.