She was between seventeen and twenty-one years old.

She stood about 5 feet 2 inches tall.

She had survived repeated episodes of hunger or illness in her childhood, each one documented in the lines preserved in her bones.

She ate salmon from the Snake River and meat from the land around it, and she processed her food on stone surfaces that left traces of grit in her teeth.

She lived in a landscape that had been dramatically reshaped within the preceding few thousand years by ice, flood, and the retreat of the Pleistocene.