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It’s very rare that we have any information about how a skeleton died in the past and
so a number of things could happen to cause your death that don’t show up on the skeleton.
And in the case of a child it may well have been some kind of acute disease – mumps
or measles or any kind of infection that she may have had that doesn’t show up on her
skeleton. Another thing that often happened to children in the past was they often drowned
and so, again, that wouldn’t show up on the skeleton. So, she may have drowned or
died of a disease that we can’t see.