The ancient DNA question cannot be addressed.

The stable isotope record exists in published form and represents the last physical analysis that will ever be done.

The burial’s physical reality is now inaccessible to scientific inquiry, permanently, by the decision of the people who have the right to make that decision.

What is available is a published record that contains real information: isotopic data that documents diet, physical measurements that describe the individual, artifact descriptions that characterize the material culture of her burial, stratigraphic information that establishes the geological context, and a radiocarbon date that must be treated with the caution that the 2021 reassessment established.

From these materials, scholars can extract genuine knowledge about the early Holocene/terminal Pleistocene human presence in the Snake River Plain.