They require the population-level data that systematic analysis of additional burials from the site would provide.

The infrastructure for such analysis exists.

Whether the funding and resources to carry it out will be available is a question of research priorities and scientific policy rather than technical capacity.

The bones are still there.

They have more to say.

The science to hear them is available.

What comes next depends on the decisions of researchers, funders, and institutions about where to focus the extraordinary capabilities that now exist for recovering information from ancient remains.

Conquest Man’s face is one answer to those decisions.

There are two thousand eight hundred more burials waiting for whatever questions the next generation of science will allow researchers to ask.