The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story

The Buhl burial required this kind of careful, honest reading at every stage.

The original researchers were honest about the single-date limitation.

The 2021 team was honest about the freshwater reservoir concerns.

The repatriation represents a different kind of honesty — the acknowledgment that science is not the only, or even the primary, framework within which decisions about ancient human remains should be made.

What archaeology owes the past, in this sense, is accuracy.

Not certainty — accuracy.