Were they elite families, whose participation in the city’s ritual life was an expression of their social position and their obligations to the sacred center of Chichén Itzá?

Were they families who had experienced specific circumstances — perhaps the birth of twins, or some other unusual event — that designated their children for specific ritual roles?

Were they families drawn from a particular region or social stratum that provided the individuals for this specific ritual context?

The genetic and isotope data can characterize these families in broad terms — their biological connections to each other, their dietary patterns, their genetic ancestry.

What it cannot characterize is their social position, their own understanding of the ritual in which their children participated, or the emotional experience of the families involved.