The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
The Question Science Cannot Pose After Reburial
There is a specific category of scientific question that the Buhl case illustrates with unusual clarity: the question that can only be asked of physical evidence that is no longer available.
In 1989, when the burial was found, the dominant method for radiocarbon dating was conventional beta-counting, and AMS dating was relatively new.
The specific pretreatment protocols for bone collagen were less refined than they would become.
The freshwater reservoir effect was known but less widely recognized in the context of human bone dating than it is today.
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