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

100One of the deeper cut marks was viewed and photographed at 160X magnification inorder to illustrate the straight, V-shaped morphology of these marks (Figure 17). Basedon the morphology and anatomical location of these cut marks, an activity associatedwith the secondary processing of the individual may be inferred.Fig. 17. Close-up of a single cut mark at 160X magnification of CQ1-16-8/2. Note thestraight, V-shaped morphology of the center mark.CRM3-03-1/1Given its size, this incomplete, left femoral shaft probably belongs to an adultindividual. Despite the worn surface, I identified eight possible cut marks on theanterior-distal and anterior-proximal aspects of the shaft (Figure 18). The marks on thedistal end of the bone are parallel and horizontal in orientation. The two superior marks