A worker noticed a femur.

Scientists arrived under time pressure and recovered what they could.

A radiocarbon laboratory in Zurich measured the carbon in her collagen and returned a date that placed her at the edge of the terminal Pleistocene.

Isotope specialists measured what she had eaten.

Physical anthropologists measured her bones.

Lithic analysts described her grave goods.

A decade later, a multi-author team published all of this in the discipline’s most important journal.

Three more decades passed.