She was, in this sense, among the people who figured out how to live in the American West as the Pleistocene ended.

The Harris lines in her bones record the difficulty of that project.

The obsidian point and the bone needle record the technology she had access to.

The isotopic evidence for salmon in her diet records the specific ecological relationship she maintained with the river that defined this landscape.

The river is still there.

The salmon are not — not in the numbers they once ran, due to dams and habitat loss.

The quarry operations that exposed her burial have been long since completed.