The Paisley Caves in Oregon, with their human coprolites dated to nearly 14,500 calibrated years ago and their later Western Stemmed assemblage, provide a site with both genetic evidence (from ancient DNA in the coprolites) and technological evidence (the stemmed points) for early human presence.

The pre-Clovis picture in the West is now substantially built on sites with multiple redundant dates and often with independently verifiable evidence.

The Buhl burial’s role in this landscape is now more circumscribed than it once was.

Its date cannot carry the chronological weight that was placed on it in the 1990s and 2000s.

But the burial is not without significance in the evolved debate.

Even with the dating uncertainty, the burial is important as a contextual assemblage — an association between human remains and specific artifact types that provides behavioral context for the Western Stemmed Tradition.