Great Basin and Columbia Plateau Worlds: Lakes, Rivers, and Living Homelands
Columbia Plateau and neighboring inland contexts (orientation only) · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Wilson Butte Cave: Snake River Plain sequences and dating limits

Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.

BLM presents a long occupation record while qualifying its proposed earliest age; headline first-evidence language should not become an absolute claim. ISU's account notes damage between campaigns and explains why renewed excavation emphasized deeper contexts.

Lava-cave sequence and research-reassessment context Late Pleistocene claims and later Holocene use; early associations require scrutiny Stratified tool assemblages, animal remains, radiocarbon samples and excavation comparisons Twin Falls, Idaho, United States (orientation only): approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, hunting, gathering, farming, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, fishing or travel permission is implied.
Resumo

Grutas, humedais, lares, rios e evidências

Conexões entre bacias, planaltos, lagos, rios e regiões vizinhas

Twin Falls, Idaho, United States is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Repeated cave use and material phases do not name one enduring government or ethnic population.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Repeated cave use and material phases do not name one enduring government or ethnic population. Wilson Butte's early bone dates require artifact-association and disturbance checks; animal age alone cannot prove human presence or a first-arrival ranking.

Transformação posterior, património vivo e recepção moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Archaeological tools and deposits cannot identify every ancient speaker; living communities' own names and histories have independent authority. Events after 1800 CE and modern research, reconstruction and stewardship are dated separately from the main historical context.

Qualified antiquity BLM presents a long occupation record while qualifying its proposed earliest age; headline first-evidence language should not become an absolute claim.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Disturbed deposits ISU's account notes damage between campaigns and explains why renewed excavation emphasized deeper contexts.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
New investigation Gruhn's report distinguishes strata and radiocarbon associations; dates on animal material require evaluation before inferring human activity.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Early associations debated

    Dated animal material and nearby artifacts must be evaluated as separate lines of evidence.

  2. First campaigns

    The ISU account records Gruhn's initial excavations.

  3. Renewed excavations

    Investigators targeted deposits less affected by disturbance.

  4. New results reported

    Gruhn published the reassessment of excavation contexts.

Cultura e língua

Práticas alimentares, trabalho com fibras, agricultura, armazenamento e trabalho doméstico

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • Archaeological tools and deposits cannot identify every ancient speaker; living communities' own names and histories have independent authority.

Família linguística: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.

Research focus: Stratified tool assemblages, animal remains, radiocarbon samples and excavation comparisons.

Repeated cave use and material phases do not name one enduring government or ethnic population.

Wilson Butte's early bone dates require artifact-association and disturbance checks; animal age alone cannot prove human presence or a first-arrival ranking.

No artifact, rock-art, sacred-site, burial or human-remains imagery or restricted knowledge is reproduced.

DNAGENICS provides AI-assisted, source-checked educational paraphrases. Cited authors, institutions and communities did not author or endorse this atlas. Public availability does not establish cultural consent or permission to reproduce objects, sacred knowledge or human remains. No imagery is reproduced. Specialist and community review is recommended; use the website contact channel for corrections, rights concerns or removal requests.

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O guia pode explicar e relacionar fatos que já aparecem nesta página. Não pode procurar na web aberta, estabelecer identidade ou cidadania, nem avaliar ascendência ou informação genética.

Baseada no conteúdo aprovado do perfil As citações usam os identificadores de fontes abaixo Sem contexto de conta ou DNA

Não introduza nomes, dados de contato, informações da árvore genealógica, identificadores de conta ou kit, nem dados genéticos.

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Fontes usadas nesta página

Prefer Indigenous governments, museums, heritage organizations, accountable field projects and public heritage institutions. Give source title, author or organization, date and stable link. Brief summaries are DNAGENICS AI-assisted interpretations, not author or community endorsement, reproduction permission or community review.

  1. C1

    A Brief History of CTUIR

    Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  2. C2

    Tamástslikt Cultural Institute: public exhibition introduction

    Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    Expanding Paleoindian Diet Breadth: Paleoethnobotany of Connley Cave 5, Oregon, USA

    Katelyn N. McDonough, Jaime L. Kennedy, Richard L. Rosencrance, Justin A. Holcomb, Dennis L. Jenkins and Kathryn Puseman; American Antiquity · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2022

  4. C4

    Return to Fort Rock Cave: Assessing the Site's Potential to Contribute to Ongoing Debates About How and When Humans Colonized the Great Basin

    Thomas J. Connolly and colleagues; American Antiquity · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2017

  5. C5

    Xwísten Community Profile

    Xwísten, Bridge River Indian Band · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014 web edition

  6. C6

    Introduction Lesson: Syilx History

    Okanagan Nation Alliance, Syilx 101 · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    History and Archaeology

    Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  8. C8

    Early and Middle Archaic Projectile Point Typology and Chronology Across the Great Basin

    Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series; Bryan Hockett and collaborators · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2022-12-21 institutional record

  9. S1

    BLM Idaho Archaeology: Wilson Butte Cave

    Bureau of Land Management · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  10. S2

    Wilson Butte Cave: excavation history

    Idaho State University, Teaching Idaho Geoscience · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. S3

    Results of New Excavations at Wilson Butte Cave, Idaho

    Ruth Gruhn; Current Research in the Pleistocene 12, Center for the Study of the First Americans · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 1995

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026