The comparison between the two dates would itself be informative — if they agreed, confidence in the original date would increase; if they differed, the nature of the discrepancy would tell researchers something about the source of the problem.

This is impossible now.

The reburial has closed the question.

Similarly, the development of ancient genomics as a practical research tool happened in the years after the Buhl reburial.

The genomes of several terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene Americans have now been sequenced, providing a comparative context into which the Buhl Woman’s genome could have been placed.

Her genetic relationship to the other ancient individuals from this period — the Anzick Child, the Spirit Cave individual, the Wilson-Leonard individuals from Texas — would have contributed to the synthetic understanding of American population history.

This comparison is now impossible.