Whatever her precise date, she lived in the world that the Clovis/Western Stemmed Tradition debate is trying to understand.

The Place She Was Found — And What It Was Like Then

The gravel quarry outside Buhl, Idaho, sits in a landscape that would have looked dramatically different twelve thousand years ago.

The Snake River Plain at the terminal Pleistocene was emerging from the full glacial environment.

The ice sheets to the north were still retreating.

The climate was cooler and wetter than today.

The forests that covered the adjacent mountains were growing downslope.