the skeleton was of a slender individual, quite different to the build of modern indigenous australians. the skeleton was badly preserved: large pieces of the skull were missing, and most of the bones in the limbs were damaged. usually, the gender of a skeleton is determined using the bones in the skull and the pelvis. the problem is that these bones are in a very bad state in lm3, or they are missing altogether; in other words, the "normal" method of gender determination cannot be used with lm3. since lm3 was discovered, other features were studied; most of these studies agree that lm3 was probably a male.