Analyses that are now routinely performed — certain types of isotope measurements, for instance, or genomic sequencing — were either unavailable or not applied to these specific remains.

But incomplete archives are still archives.

The Buckeye Knoll record, as it exists in the published literature and in the photographic archives collected before reburial, remains one of the most significant datasets on Early Archaic Texas populations available anywhere.

Future researchers will continue to mine it for insights that the original investigators may not have anticipated.

The same is true of Bering Sinkhole.

The Bement analysis of the sinkhole population, published through the University of Texas Press, remains a foundational reference for understanding Archaic-period mortuary practices and population biology on the Edwards Plateau.