HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT MAYA IN THE ...

91adults of indeterminate age and sex, and three subadults (Table 11). The determinationof the sex of the adult male is based on the dimensions of a complete left femoral shaftfrom Lot CQ1-16-8. The fused femoral head has a vertical diameter of 39.32 mm,indicating a smaller adult male. The subadults are represented by several phalanges andmetapodials with unfused epiphyses. A few deciduous teeth confirm the presence ofchildren in the sample. The MNI conducted at the level of the suboperation renders anestimate of 12 individuals. The largest discrepancy between the MNIs of lot andsuboperation occur in the estimation of the individuals represented in suboperation CQ1-10. The material recovered from the four lots of Suboperation CQ1-10 account for fouradults and three subadults. This differs from the two adults and one subadult calculatedfor the entire suboperation.The estimates at the level of the operation and the cave as a whole seem moreplausible considering the relative size of the entire skeletal sample. I estimate fiveindividuals at the level of the operation. The adult male and female identified at thelevel of the suboperation are treated as the same individual in the operation MNI.Operation CQ1 contained the adult male as well as another adult of indeterminate sex,and a subadult. The two other operations each contain at least one adult individual.However, as previously stated, the navicular found in Lot CQ2-01-0 may be associatedwith an individual in the first operation. Due to this possible displacement of skeletalmaterial within the cave, I also calculated an MNI estimate of the entire cave sample,which tallies four individuals. This is one less individual than the estimate at the level ofthe operation. Given the small size of the skeletal sample, MNI estimates at the level of