The Weight Of What We Do Not Know

In this account, significant space has been given to what is known — to the established facts of the burial, the age, the genome, the ancestry connection.

But it is important to close with an acknowledgment of what is not known.

We do not know the child’s name.

We do not know his parents’ names.

We do not know the language of his community.

We do not know the specific beliefs that motivated the preparation of his burial, or what the people who attended it believed would happen to him.