The man whose skull was found in the Punín ravine was part of this world. Physical analysis of the skull — conducted as part of the research that eventually produced the facial reconstruction — established that he was approximately 50 years old when he died. This places him in the category of older adults by the standards of his time and place: reaching 50 in a hunter-gatherer economy without any modern medical care is not guaranteed, and someone who lived to this age had navigated the full range of physical challenges that his lifestyle presented.
What he looked like, what he knew, what he contributed to the people around him — the answer to these questions has been partially recovered, after three thousand years, by the science of forensic facial reconstruction.