Enough people cared, for long enough, to sustain a tradition for fifty-five centuries.

The evidence of that caring is still there, in the limestone hills of Kerr County, in the published reports that document what was found there, and in the memory of a discovery that opened a window — however partial, however imperfect — onto the deep human history of the Texas Hill Country.

The Archive That Cannot Be Closed

Scientific knowledge, once created, is not entirely reversible.

The reburial of Buckeye Knoll in 2006 closed physical access to those specific remains.