[3] The Horner site is located in the foothills of the Absaroka Range, on a terrace of land overlooking the confluence of Sage Creek and the Shoshone River, east of the town of Cody.

[5] The site is on the western edge of the Bighorn Basin, an area believed to have a substantial prehistoric buffalo population.

[7] Over the next three years, a number of excavations took place at the site, garnering national press interest, and visits by a great many scientists studying the early history of man in North America.

The site became important because it was the first place where both Eden and Scottsbluff projectile points were found in properly datable geological contexts, and it is this confluence that gave rise to the Cody complex Due to the large amount of publicity, the site suffered in the following years from illegal artifact collection, compromising it to some extent.

[8] Archaeologist George Frisson, writing in 1987, opined that the site continued to be important due to its unique setting.