How common was the freshwater reservoir effect in the radiocarbon dates of other early individuals from river-rich environments in the American West?

Are there other dates in the archaeological literature that are similarly suspect?

How should the archaeological community handle the tension between the irreversible nature of repatriation and the ongoing development of analytical methods that could contribute new knowledge from properly curated ancient remains?

None of these questions will be answered by the Buhl burial itself.

The burial is beyond reach of further physical inquiry.

But the questions it raised persist, and the cases it belongs to — the Western Stemmed Tradition chronology, the history of repatriation, the freshwater reservoir effect in ancient bone dating — continue to develop through research on other sites and other individuals.