The Bluefish Caves site, following the 2017 publication, has not simply been resolved and set aside.

It remains an active subject of research, a site with significant potential for future excavation and analysis, and a reference point in ongoing debates about the timing and character of the first American settlement.

New excavations at Bluefish Caves, if they are conducted with modern methods, could extend the stratigraphic record of the site, identify additional modified specimens in well-documented contexts, and potentially recover organic materials — charcoal, plant remains, invertebrate shells — that could be dated to confirm and extend the radiocarbon chronology of the site.

The application of micro-morphological analysis to the cave sediments — the examination of thin sections of sediment under a microscope to characterize the depositional and post-depositional processes that have acted on the layers — could provide detailed information about the stratigraphy that would address the concerns about sediment mixing that have been raised about the original excavations.