They estimated her to have been under the age of 20 when she died, and she had also undergone tight head bandaging from a young age—a practice that had left her head cone-shaped. After taking CT scans of the skull, the researchers were able to see changes to the bone making up the skull—much of it was thinner than normal, putting the girl at higher risk of a head injury.
They were also able to see that it was a head injury that had killed the girl—her skull was fractured from near the front all the way to the back, and there were no signs of healing. The researchers suggest the fracture had been caused by someone wielding a broad-edged object. There was no bone penetration, but the reduced bone thickness allowed the force of the strike to make its way to the brain. The rest of her skeleton has not yet been found due to the density of remains in the gravesite.