After the reburial at Buckeye Knoll, any future data collection or analysis must come from the digital photographs and records collected during the excavations.

The physical archive is closed.

What The Ancient Bones Looked Like — Before Science Could Read Them

The preserved remains from Texas cave and sinkhole burials allow physical anthropologists to reconstruct, within limits, the biological profile of the individuals buried there — not their identities, not their names, not their stories in the human sense, but their physical lives.

The work that has been done on the Bering Sinkhole skeletal population, and on the Buckeye Knoll sample where analysis was completed before reburial, reveals a picture of early Texas Archaic life that is both recognizable and deeply foreign.

The individuals were generally healthy, by the standards of prehistoric hunter-gatherers.