The torch fragments are still on the cave floor where they fell.

The gourd bowls are still near the walls where they were set.

The man from the ledge is not there, in the sense of being where he was found.

He is somewhere in the cave — in the protected, secret location where the park administration reinterred him after taking him from display in the 1970s.

His exact location is known only to a very small number of people, a deliberate and respectful obscurity.

The questions that his presence raises are still open.