What she could tell them was also, given all those limitations, remarkable: that people were living in the Snake River Plain in the deep past, that they ate from the river and from the land, that they sewed their clothing and carried their tools long distances, that they buried their dead with care, and that the single obsidian point placed beside her bones is still — after all the methodological debate — one of the most direct and personal connections we have to the people who first settled this landscape.

The date may be wrong.

The significance is not.

She is there.

She was real.

And the questions she opens are still worth asking.

The Scientific Community’s Response To The 2021 Reassessment

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