. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. CANNIBALISM IN BRITAIN: TAPHONOMY OF FAUNAL AND HUMAN REMAINS FROM GOUGH'S CAVE 77. Fig. 21 A, Human maxilla (M54130a ) and mandible (M54130a) from a young individual. The jaws are heavily damaged by percussion and cutting. The maxilla has both zygomatic arches broken and extensive cuts on the masseter insertion, as well as on the face above the canines where the lips attach, and on the palate. Cuts on the mandible are present on both lingual and buccal sides of the mandible. Also in the area of the medial pterygoid insertion and corono
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. CANNIBALISM IN BRITAIN: TAPHONOMY OF FAUNAL AND HUMAN REMAINS FROM GOUGH'S CAVE 77. Fig. 21 A, Human maxilla (M54130a ) and mandible (M54130a) from a young individual. The jaws are heavily damaged by percussion and cutting. The maxilla has both zygomatic arches broken and extensive cuts on the masseter insertion, as well as on the face above the canines where the lips attach, and on the palate. Cuts on the mandible are present on both lingual and buccal sides of the mandible. Also in the area of the medial pterygoid insertion and coronoid process the inferior border is broken and the ascending ramus broken. B, Maxilla of horse Equus ferus, GC89-061. The body of the maxilla is broken, with several percussion marks along the broken edge and one on the undamaged surface of the bone. There are also two sets of cut-marks passing diagonally across the buccal sides of the teeth which are shown in the next figure. C, Maxilla of red deer M49981, with cut-marks just below the alveolar margin on both the buccal and lingual surfaces. A, x ??; B, ;C, x and jaws is evidence of violence and destructive intent of mutilation of a possible enemy (Turner and Turner, 1992). In Gough's Cave, large mammal jaws have similar degrees of destruction to human jaws and faces and, we therefore do not consider this evidence as indication of human-to-human violence. Cook (1986) also rejected any interpretation of violence on the Gough's Cave assemblage. Cook's critical review of the marks recorded on these fossils led her to interpret most marks on the human bones as being due to trampling (Andrews & Cook 1985, Cook 1986). In fact. Cook considered as the only firm evidence of deliberate human interference some marks on the buccal surface and inferior border of the adult mandible (M54130, Gough's 6). Cook (1986) considered these marks as related to removal of the tongue. It is remarkable that one horse mandible has also cuts on
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