He was approximately fifteen years old when he died — old enough to have been an active participant in the community, to have taken on adult roles in the seasonal economy of herding and farming and fishing, but young enough that his death would have been understood as premature.

He was buried without the elaborate post-mortem treatment that characterized his older relative’s deposition.

His bones were not modified.

His skull was not fractured or worked.

Why were they buried together?

The DNA evidence establishes that they were biologically related at the second-cousin level — close enough to have been known to each other, to have shared a community, to have been part of the same extended kinship network.

But second-cousin relatedness is not so close as to suggest they were immediate family members who would automatically be buried together.