She was buried — deliberately, by people who made choices about what should accompany her — with a large obsidian point, a bone needle with an eye for thread, and several other objects including an unmodified badger baculum.

The obsidian came from a source in the Pacific Northwest, documenting connections across distance.

The needle documented a tradition of careful, skilled craft.

She was found in a gravel quarry in January 1989, when a femur appeared in a rock crusher screen and work stopped and archaeologists arrived.

She was studied under time pressure, in conditions that did not allow for the careful excavation that might have been possible otherwise.

A radiocarbon date placed her in the terminal Pleistocene, making her one of the oldest humans ever found in North America — and that date was later called into serious question by researchers who noted the potential effects of her fish-heavy diet on the reliability of bone collagen radiocarbon results.