She was a female, estimated at the time of analysis to have been somewhere between six weeks and about three months old at the time of her death — an infant in the earliest period of life, too young to have accumulated much experience of the world but old enough to have been known and mourned by the community she had briefly been part of.

USR2 was in worse condition — the preservation of the skeletal material was poorer, and the remains were more fragmentary.

A third set of remains was eventually identified through analysis of the burial context, possibly representing a fetus.

The specifics of USR2’s analysis have been less completely published than those of USR1, partly because the material was less amenable to the kinds of genetic analysis that proved so powerful in USR1’s case.

The radiocarbon dates obtained from the USR1 burial placed it at approximately 11,500 years before the present.