The mammoth specimens in the collection were examined, but the published study did not claim to have found compelling evidence of human modification on the mammoth material.

This does not mean that the Bluefish Caves people did not interact with mammoths — absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and the specific sample of specimens submitted to the most detailed taphonomic analysis may not have been representative of the full range of human activity at the site.

But it does mean that the published evidence for human-mammoth interaction at Bluefish Caves is weaker than the evidence for human-horse and human-caribou interaction.

The question of human-mammoth interaction at Bluefish Caves and in the broader eastern Beringian context is one of the more interesting unresolved questions in the study of Last Glacial Maximum human subsistence.