. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. Fig. 24 Four views of human calvaria. A, lateral view of child's skull M54141 showing cut-marks and one percussion mark causing extensive cracking of the skull. B, frontal view showing cut-marks inside the orbits. C, lateral view of skull 460a, showing percusssion marks superimposed on cut-marks along the temporal muscle insertion. D, back view of the same skull showing extensive cut-marks in the broken occipital Fig. 25 A, Frontal view of the GC87 calotte showing cut-marks low down on the frontal bone. B, detail of the parieta
. Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series. Fig. 24 Four views of human calvaria. A, lateral view of child's skull M54141 showing cut-marks and one percussion mark causing extensive cracking of the skull. B, frontal view showing cut-marks inside the orbits. C, lateral view of skull 460a, showing percusssion marks superimposed on cut-marks along the temporal muscle insertion. D, back view of the same skull showing extensive cut-marks in the broken occipital Fig. 25 A, Frontal view of the GC87 calotte showing cut-marks low down on the frontal bone. B, detail of the parietal (left) and occipital bones of the same calotte showing the cut-marks in this region. A, x ; B,x child calvaria was fragmented by post-depositional damage, due to the greater fragility of its bones. This is in contrast to traits observed at the site of Atapuerca (TD6-Aurora Stratum, Spain) where mandi- bles and skulls of both humans and non-humans were highly broken, and cuts appeared on areas related to dismembering rather than skinning. In the light of taphonomic analyses of the Atapuerca TD6- Aurora Stratum fossil assemblage, the cause of cannibalism was considered to be purely nutritional, and probably gastronomic (Fernandez-Jalvo, et al., 1999). Southwest Native Amerindian sites (White, 1992; Turner and Turner, 1999) have many skull fragments found mixed with com- plete skulls. These skulls, however, have evidence of heating which would make the face and head muscle attachments easier to remove. The use of fire has also been identified at the human sample of the Navatu Fijian assemblage (Degusta, 1999), and burning is focused on the head (41%) compared to post-cranial elements (16%). More significantly, the effects of fire are seen more commonly on human remains than on other taxa. In this case, however, Navatu skulls appear highly broken. The Neolithic site at Fontbregoua (France) has human skulls that are more complete than non-human skulls (with the exception o
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