She may have died of exposure.

She may have died of causes that left no trace in bone.

We know only that she died, very young, and that the people who had been with her through her brief life buried her with care in a place that had been part of their daily existence.

The hearth in which she was placed had been used for warmth and for cooking — for the most fundamental forms of sustaining life.

Its repurposing as her resting place connected her departure from life to the center of life that the hearth represented.