Fish living in this water incorporate that carbon into their tissues.

Humans who eat those fish incorporate the carbon into theirs.

The river gave life.

It also, in this specific technical sense, complicates the archaeology of the lives it supported.

What Cooper’s Ferry Adds To The Picture

The Cooper’s Ferry site in the Salmon River canyon of west-central Idaho has, since 2019, become one of the most significant reference points for understanding early human presence in the Snake River Plain region.

Its inclusion in any discussion of the Buhl burial is warranted because the two sites are geographically close in a regional sense, connected through the same river system, and relevant to the same set of chronological questions.