Childhood was dangerous — the Harris lines in her bones document the hardships she survived.

Adulthood was dangerous too, in different ways.

She ate well, by the standards of her time and place: meat and fish, including salmon from the Snake River, processed on stone tools that left grit marks in her teeth.

The diet gave her what she needed to survive childhood and reach adulthood.

It also, in the irony that the science later revealed, complicated the measurement of her age.

She was buried with care.