The future DNA analyses that might have been conducted, the future isotope studies that might have refined the dietary picture, the future methods that might have illuminated aspects of those ancient lives that current science cannot reach — all of those possibilities were ended by the reinterment.

But the archive of what was learned before the reburial has not been destroyed.

The physical anthropological measurements and observations are published and available.

The stable isotope data is in the scientific literature.

The artifact descriptions and photographs are in the record.

The radiocarbon dates are confirmed and cannot be undated.

This archive is not as complete as it could be.

Studies that might have been conducted were not, because the scientific community did not have unlimited access and unlimited time before the reburial.