. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. 12 E. TRINKAUS. Fig. 10 Anterior view of the Gough's Cave 1 proximal femora; x (enlargement of Fig. 6, top left). Distal Epiphyses (Table 10) There is little of note on the Gough's Cave 1 distal femoral epiphysis. The condyles are rounded with no evidence of femoral squatting facets. There is only a small rounded ridge along the supracondylar margin of the medial condyles, up to from the condylar surface on the left side where it is best preserved. Their bicondylar angles of 10° each are well within Mesolithic ranges of variat
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. 12 E. TRINKAUS. Fig. 10 Anterior view of the Gough's Cave 1 proximal femora; x (enlargement of Fig. 6, top left). Distal Epiphyses (Table 10) There is little of note on the Gough's Cave 1 distal femoral epiphysis. The condyles are rounded with no evidence of femoral squatting facets. There is only a small rounded ridge along the supracondylar margin of the medial condyles, up to from the condylar surface on the left side where it is best preserved. Their bicondylar angles of 10° each are well within Mesolithic ranges of variation (° ± , N= 19; ° ± °, N = 15 for males only), all of which are similar to those of recent humans (Tardieu & Trinkaus, 1994). The one measure of distal epiphyseal size for which reasonable Mesolithic comparative samples exist, epicondylar breadth versus bicondylar length, provides an index of It suggests a modest but not unusually small epiphysis, given means of for total (± , N = 19) and for male (± , N = 14) Mesolithic samples. TIBIAE Inventory Right (No. ) A complete bone with minor abrasion to the medial half of the posterior distal epiphysis and thin adhering matrix around the proxi- mal epiphysis. Left (No. ) The bone retains two pieces, a proximal posterior piece of the diaphysis with the abraded soleal line (maximum preserved length: ) and a diaphyseal section with all of the surfaces just proximal of the distal epiphysis (maximum preserved length: ). Both of the pieces are set in a plaster and papier-mache reconstruction of the bone and attached to the left fibula (Fig. 11). Morphology Even though portions of both tibiae are present, meaningful morpho- logical observations can be made primarily on the essentially complete right bone. Therefore, the following comments apply to the right bone except where noted otherwise. Diaphysis (Tables 11, 12, 14; Figs 11, 12) The right tibial diaphysis has
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