Its presence suggests either that the people who buried this woman had specific beliefs about the significance of this particular kind of bone, or that the badger baculum was a recognized type of tool or amulet in their material culture.

Neither explanation is verifiable from the archaeological record alone.

What is clear is that someone made a deliberate decision to include it, which suggests it was not coincidentally present.

Taken together, the grave goods suggest a burial conducted by people with specific ideas about what should accompany the dead, and with access to diverse materials including obsidian from distant sources.

The burial was intentional, thoughtful, and materially expressive in ways that resonate with what we know about early American mortuary practices from other sites of comparable age.