The evidence demonstrates human presence in the Great Basin region thousands of years before Clovis, establishing the deep antiquity of Indigenous occupation of this part of North America.

The mitochondrial haplogroups identified are founding lineages of Native American ancestry.

The archaeological evidence documents specific adaptations to the Great Basin environment that are ancestral, in a broad sense, to the cultural traditions of the Indigenous peoples who have occupied this region through the historical period and the present.

But the connection is general rather than specific, ancestral rather than genealogically precise, and any attempt to use the Paisley evidence to claim or assign specific tribal identities should be resisted.

The Indigenous Context of Paisley Caves