Their burial in the same pond as everyone else says something about what they meant to the community that buried them.

The infants and very young children whose bones are the most fragmentary, the hardest to analyze, the ones whose individual stories are most difficult to recover — they were also buried in this pond, with grave goods, with attention.

They were not simply lost; they were placed, with care, in the same sacred or special space where the community placed all of its dead.

These individual lives are not recoverable in any complete sense.