His skull was not fractured.

His internal cranial surface bore no cut marks.

His long bones were not modified into tools.

He was buried, as far as the evidence shows, without the elaborate post-mortem processing that distinguished her burial.

This differential treatment within a shared burial space is interpretively rich in multiple directions.

It might reflect different social statuses — an adult woman of high standing in the community treated with complex, labor-intensive post-mortem processes that a younger male was not.

It might reflect the circumstances of their deaths — if they died at different times, or in different circumstances, the handling of their remains might have followed different protocols.