These methods were well-suited to the task of documenting the archaeological sequence of the caves, and the results were published in the professional literature in ways that preserved the contextual information essential for later reanalysis.

What the expedition found in the caves was a layered record of occupation spanning a significant period of Alaskan prehistory.

The faunal material from the deeper layers of the cave was particularly interesting from a Pleistocene research perspective: the bones of extinct Ice Age animals in cave contexts were recognized as significant evidence for the ecological history of the region, and the possibility that some of the cave’s archaeological material was associated with or predated those Ice Age faunal assemblages made the site worth careful attention.

The human tooth from Cave 2 was recovered from a specific stratigraphic context within this layered sequence.