He was an infant.

He lived and died in a world where the concept of genomic analysis did not exist, where the idea that biological material extracted from bones could reveal the deep history of human populations would have been incomprehensible, and where the relationship between the living and the dead was understood through frameworks that we can only partially reconstruct from the material evidence of the burial itself.

What we can say is that the people who buried him invested enormously in his passage from the living world to whatever they understood lay beyond it.

They gave him their best tools.