The chain of connection, from the people who buried him to the scientists who studied him to the public who now knows his face, runs across ten centuries.

It runs across enormous changes in culture, language, religion, technology, and society.

But it connects people who are recognizably the same kind of beings, making decisions about how to treat the dead, how to remember the people who were there before, and how to understand a past that shaped the world they inhabit.

In that sense, Conquest Man belongs to everyone who has ever wondered about the people who lived before them and left only bones and fragments of their material world behind.

The face, reconstructed from those bones and fragments, looks forward across the centuries.