The Upward Sun River individual from Alaska — an infant dated to roughly 11,500 calibrated years ago — produced ancient DNA and contributed directly to understanding of the founding population genetics of the Americas.

Anzick Child from Montana, also roughly 12,600 calibrated years ago, produced ancient DNA showing clear Clovis-era genetic affiliations with modern Native Americans.

The Buhl burial is older, or potentially older, than most of these.

If the original date is taken at face value, she is among the oldest humans for whom skeletal evidence exists in North America.

Even if the date is somewhat inflated, she is still very early — in the terminal Pleistocene or early Holocene.

She is also the only one of these early individuals for whom no genetic analysis was performed, which means she cannot participate in the genomic synthesis that has been assembled from the others.