The consistent westward orientation of the heads, with faces turned north, was clearly deliberate.

It was maintained across multiple burials over what appears to have been a long period of cemetery use.

This consistency indicates a shared understanding of how the dead should be placed — a cultural practice rather than an individual preference.

But the specific belief that motivated this orientation is inaccessible from the archaeological evidence.

The choice of a pond as the burial location was equally deliberate.

There were presumably other places where people could have been buried — on dry land, in rockshelters if any were accessible, in other environments.