E. TRINKAUS 



Fig. 7 Medial (left) and lateral (right) views of the Gough's Cave 1 femora; x 0.4. 



slightly, with the right interarticular lengths being ca.6.0mm longer 

 (Table 5). However, all of this difference is contained within the 

 proximal epiphyses, since the bicondylar trochanteric lengths are 

 identical and the left maximum trochanteric length is slightly longer. 



Diaphyses (Tables 5, 6, 8; Figs 6, 7) 



The diaphyses are straight medio-laterally with the minimum breadth 

 near midshaft. The femora have moderate anterior curvature, as is 

 indicated by subtense/chord indices of 3 . 1 and 2.9 versus 3 .4 ± 0.7 (N 

 = 16) for a Mesolithic sample and 3.5 ± 0.6 (N = 1 0) for a Mesolithic 

 male sample. It is produced primarily by an anterior angulation in the 



mid-proximal diaphysis with relatively straight more proximal and 

 distal diaphyseal profiles. As a result, the positions of the maximum 

 subtenses are 43.9% and 39.7% of the chords from their proximal 

 ends, values which are only slightly below the means of variable 

 Mesolithic (46.0 ± 9.0, N = 15) and Mesolithic male (47.1 ± 10.4, N 

 = 9) samples. 



The diaphyses exhibit clear asymmetry near midshaft with the 

 right side being larger. This is reflected in larger right side midshaft 

 diameters (Table 5). It is more evident in cross-sectional measures 

 (Tables 6, 8), which exhibit a 6.7% asymmetry in cortical area and a 

 16.9% asymmetry in the polar moment of area [% asymmetry = 



