"nearly all of the flowering heads of the 13 female plants had been cut off before they were placed on the body" - looks like this guy's friends already smoked most if it before they buried him!
It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one of the pics from the article. What if it was viable? What midevil type of weed would that be?