. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. 62 P. ANDREWS AND Y. FERNANDEZ-JALVO seen, so that at least four individuals are indicated. All four left femora are dyaphysis fragments that represent small individuals, and in addi- tion there is a right proximal femur and fragments of diaphysis from a larger sized individual (Trinkaus 2000), so that the MNI indicated by the femur is five. Nine tibia fragments indicate four individuals, two large and two small (Trinkaus 2000), but only one was seen. Humerus: There are six fragments of humeri, all of them from a single human individual
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. 62 P. ANDREWS AND Y. FERNANDEZ-JALVO seen, so that at least four individuals are indicated. All four left femora are dyaphysis fragments that represent small individuals, and in addi- tion there is a right proximal femur and fragments of diaphysis from a larger sized individual (Trinkaus 2000), so that the MNI indicated by the femur is five. Nine tibia fragments indicate four individuals, two large and two small (Trinkaus 2000), but only one was seen. Humerus: There are six fragments of humeri, all of them from a single human individual. The shafts are split longitudinally (shaft circumference category 1, shaft fragmentation categories 1 and 2 according to Villa and Mahieu 1991). The ends are absent, with only one split fragment of shaft near the neck of the head (GC'87, no. 12). Cut-marks appear on four of the six fragments of humerus (67%). Cuts run obliquely along the shaft clustered or isolated covering rugose surfaces or muscle attachments (deltoid crest, triceps inser- tion or brachialis muscle). One of the specimens (GC'87, ) preserves the area near the head, and it is here where a cut runs transversally across the humerus on the attachment of teres minor. Distally in the same fragment there are also scraping marks near the fracture edge. The scraping marks probably resulted from the removal of soft tissues that could have absorbed the blow when breaking the bone to extract the marrow (Binford, 1981). Three of these cut- marked fragments of humerus also show percussion marks along the broken edges. Some of these fragments also have conchoidal scars, adhered flakes and/or removed flakes, also located on the broken edge. Only one fragment of humerus has weathering in stage 1 (Behrensmeyer, 1978) and two are affected by trampling, but none of them have tooth marks. Summary of humeri. Total 6 specimens, all human. Cut-marks: 4 specimens (2 on fossils from the 1987 collections) Percussion marks: 3 spec
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