. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. CANNIBALISM IN BRITAIN: TAPHONOMY OF FAUNAL AND HUMAN REMAINS FROM GOUGH'S CAVE 65 with no ends (circumference category 1 and length category 1). In contrast to this all animal tibiae have circumferences category 3 and length between 1 and 2 (according to Villa and Mahieu, 1991). It is apparent from this that the animal bones are preserved differently from the human long bones. There are no cut-marks on the human tibia fragment, but percussion marks are present. On the animal bones, cuts appear on 5 of the 7 distal ends of tibiae. The c
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. CANNIBALISM IN BRITAIN: TAPHONOMY OF FAUNAL AND HUMAN REMAINS FROM GOUGH'S CAVE 65 with no ends (circumference category 1 and length category 1). In contrast to this all animal tibiae have circumferences category 3 and length between 1 and 2 (according to Villa and Mahieu, 1991). It is apparent from this that the animal bones are preserved differently from the human long bones. There are no cut-marks on the human tibia fragment, but percussion marks are present. On the animal bones, cuts appear on 5 of the 7 distal ends of tibiae. The cuts are related to the articulation of the tibia with the tarsals, on the distal ends (Fig. 3A), or on the posterior and/or anterior surfaces (Fig. 3B), and all are related to dismembering the ankle joint. The distal end of another equid tibia with a small part of the shaft shows cuts on the lateral maleolus, probably also related to cutting the short and long lateral ligaments when dismembering the foot. Another distal end with a small part of the shaft of cervid also has cuts on the shaft, but this time they appear on the opposite side of the shaft from percus- sion marks (see below). With regard to fracture, the human tibia has peeling on one of the ends and percussion impact scars on the edge of the longitudinal breakage. This suggests there were several impacts on the bone to open the bone longitudinally and expose the marrow. One of the equid tibiae (GC'87-4, Fig. 3C) has a conchoidal scar on the poste- rior midshaft and extensive percussion marks all round the shaft. Two of the four cervid tibiae show percussion marks. One of them (M50019) has percussion marks on the opposite side of cuts, which suggests that the latter could be anvil marks as result of blows on the bone. The other (M50017) has a flake removed on the lateral side near the broken edge and a percussion impact mark on the plantar side, near the articulation (Fig. 3A). M50017 has also trampling marks running
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