2021 paper generated attention in the archaeological community because it addressed a date that had been in circulation for nearly three decades and had accumulated considerable scholarly weight through citation and use in synthesis works.

The reassessment was published in the same journal — American Antiquity — as the original Green et al.

1998 report, which meant it appeared in the most prominent venue for North American archaeological scholarship and reached the same audience that had been citing the original date.

This visibility was important: concerns about the Buhl date had been noted informally by some researchers for years, but the 2021 paper formalized and documented those concerns in a peer-reviewed format that required the community to engage with them explicitly.

The response has been to treat the Buhl date with caution in subsequent synthetic works on Western Stemmed Tradition chronology and Clovis/WST relationships.