The Buhl burial, even if its date is inflated by the freshwater reservoir effect, represents a population that was present in this landscape during a period of well-established human occupation.

The Buhl Woman was not an anomaly.

She was part of a community, in a region with a documented human presence going back at least 15,000 years, using a technology — stemmed biface points — that was characteristic of the earliest well-dated occupations of the Snake River Plain.

The Herrett Center — The Institution That Made The Recovery Possible

When the femur appeared in the rock crusher screen on January 17, 1989, the Buhl Highway District crew notified the Herrett Center for Arts and Science at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.

This institution — a regional museum, science center, and educational facility — was the immediately available scientific resource for the discovery.