tepexpan man has a healed fracture on his right ulna. de terra thought that due to this fracture and the proximity to mammoth fossils, tepexpan man may have been a hunter who was either killed by his fellow men or mortally wounded while hunting. the science newsletter claims that the individual suffered from a stiff neck due to the many limy deposits on the cervical vertebrae. this means that tepexpan man most likely suffered from arthritis.