No other features found on the 41BX6 cranium were considered possibly associated with the cause of death.

Summary

Given the limited data available, it is our opinion that the most plausible osteobiography of the 41BX6 cranium is of a young adult male between 17 and 23 years of age and of unknown ethnicity. Glassman suggests there is indication the individual may have been subjected to antemortem trauma of the head including a possible knife or saber wound above the left eye; Steele, however, feels the damage to the frontal above the eye represents postmortem damage. The incompleteness of the remains suggests a time interval between death and burial or the cranium had been secondarily deposited from some other primary site. Regardless of the mode of deposition, the cranium was subjected to numerous taphonomic changes.