The analysis of that dataset continues, and Conquest Man is a single thread within a much larger tapestry of evidence about life and death in this community over more than a thousand years.

Other individuals from the same site have been studied, some revealing evidence of specific diseases, some showing patterns of trauma, some displaying the skeletal markers of occupational specialization.

Each burial contributes to a collective portrait of a community across time.

The challenge for researchers working with such large cemetery datasets is to move between the individual and the population without losing the specificity of either.

Conquest Man is most compelling as an individual, a specific person who can be described and whose face can be reconstructed.