The obsidian from which it was made was not locally available.

Someone had either made or obtained this point from material sourced at a distance, and it was valuable enough — or meaningful enough — to be placed in the burial rather than retained.

There is a question about whether the point in the burial was a finished, used hunting tool or something made specifically for burial.

Points found in burial contexts sometimes show evidence of having been made specifically for mortuary use — they may be oversized, or of unusual forms, or made in ways that would not have been practical for actual use.

The Buhl point, described as a large stemmed biface of the Windust/Parman type, falls within the range of actual use-size for hunting tools of this tradition, but it is on the larger end of the distribution.