Whether she herself had any relationship to the specific objects found in the cave is unknown.

But she lived in a world where such things were being made, by people who were capable of complex behavior whether or not we choose to call them “modern” by the specific definition that term carries in paleoanthropological usage.

The Size Of What We Don’t Know

It would be misleading to end this account without being clear about the magnitude of what remains unknown — because the story of Denny, while extraordinary in what it reveals, is as much a story about the limits of our knowledge as about its extent.

We have one individual.