bones rammed and lodged up the marrow cavities of broken larger bones 

 (Figure 35). 



8. In several instances small bones and even stone flakes have been 

 wedged between the condyles of long bones (Figure 36). 



9. Numerous long bones show signs of having been broken by a kind 

 of spiral torsional stress. 



10. In one analysis 80 per cent of over 50 baboon crania from Taung 

 (21), Sterkfontein (22), and Makapansgat (15) show signs of damage by local- 

 ized violence— such as a single depressed fracture, or perhaps 2 adjacent ones. 

 Some of the ungulate humeri have damaged epicondyles that fit some of the 

 fracture depressions on the baboon crania. 



11. There is some slight evidence of stone-collecting habits: a small 

 number of quartz and quartzite pebbles and fragments have been found in 

 the breccia. 



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Figure 35: Shaft fragments of 2 antelope long bones from the grey breccia 

 at Makapansgat. The left specimen shows a metacarpal wedged inside 

 a tibia: at the far end, where the metacarpal widens toward its extremity, 

 the inner bone is firmly impacted against the wall of the marrow cavity 

 of the outer bone, with virtually no calcite intervening. The right 

 specimen is of a metacarpal wedged up the marrow cavity of a radius. 



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