The teeth also showed wear consistent with cooked food rather than raw food — a distinction that isotopic analysis would later refine further.

She was eating processed, cooked material, not raw meat straight from the animal.

The cranial morphology — the shape of her skull and face — was described by the researchers as falling within ranges similar to other North American Indigenous and East Asian populations.

This morphological observation is important to understand carefully, because it has sometimes been misread as a statement about ancestry or identity.

It is not.