The Young Woman Found In An Idaho Gravel Quarry — And The 12,500-Year-Old Burial That Complicated The Clovis Story
This is the specific scientific tension at the heart of the Buhl case.
The dietary evidence is clear.
The dating problem that dietary evidence creates is equally clear.
And the means to resolve it — additional dating on the bones themselves, or on materials definitively associated with the burial — is no longer available.
How The American West Was Settled — What The Broader Record Shows
To place the Buhl burial in its proper context, it helps to understand what archaeologists now know about the peopling of the American West and the specific landscapes of the Snake River Plain.
The Great Basin and the Snake River Plain region of the Intermountain West sit at the intersection of several major geographical and ecological zones.