Cranium of an adult, probable male, with metopic suture. There is a healed depression fracture approximately seven millimetres in diameter on the left frontal eminence, caused by blunt force trauma.

For example, one of the cranial sutures on the skull had already fused together, which usually does not happen until a person has surpassed the age of 65. Since the cranial suture had closed early ...

One of the cranial sutures — the wiggly lines on a skull where the individual bones fuse during life — was already closed, which does not normally happen until a person is older than 65.