CRANBERRY TWP — Skeletal remains found Saturday afternoon near UPMC Passavant Cranberry have already yielded clues.

The unidentified person is a man, relatively short, and he’s had some dental work done, investigators said.

He died last year, possibly in the summer. The man died where his complete skeleton was found — face up in tall grass on top of a small knoll some 50 yards off Dutilh Road.

Meanwhile, Cranberry police are trying to determine if several empty prescription pill bottles found near the remains could be another clue.

Those pills, if they belonged to him, could suggest he suffered some type of fatal medical condition. Or maybe he died of an overdose.

Forensic scientists from Mercyhurst College in Erie are examining the remains accidentally stumbled upon about 2:30 p.m. in a wooded area not far from the Cranberry Mall, authorities said.

“The first step is to thaw the remains since they’ve have been out in the winter and have frozen tissue,” said Dennis Dirkmaat on Sunday. He is the forensic anthropologist who is leading a team of experts and students in the examination.

Next, the clothes the dead man was wearing will be carefully removed and documented.

“They were regular street clothes, casual,” said Butler County Deputy Coroner Dennis Trzeciak, who Cranberry police called to make the initial examination of the remains.

The clothing, now faded, appeared to be lighter weight fabric indicating the man had been dressed for a summer or early fall day — his last day alive.