Table 4. Frost, green, dry and indeterminate long bone breakage (NISP and τ); measurement intervals along the length of the long bone (NR and τ); anthropogenic marks (NR and τ).
Sites | Saint Marcel Cave | Riparo Tagliente | Abri du Maras | |||||||||||
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Layer | g | h | 35 | 37 | 4.1MUNG | 4.2LUNG | 4.2MUNG | |||||||
NISP | % | NISP | % | NISP | % | NISP | % | NISP | % | NISP | % | NISP | % | |
Green bone fracture | 252 | 97.67 | 283 | 93.4 | 136 | 98.55 | 163 | 92.61 | 682 | 91.91 | 192 | 94.58 | 358 | 97.55 |
Dry bone fracture | 71 | 27.52 | 152 | 50.17 | 34 | 24.64 | 20 | 11.36 | 222 | 29.92 | 53 | 26.11 | 75 | 20.44 |
Und | 2 | 0.78 | 4 | 1.32 | 9 | 6.52 | 16 | 9.09 | 88 | 11.86 | 45 | 22.17 | 61 | 16.62 |
Gelifraction | -- | -- | - | - | 5 | 3.62 | -- | -- | 17 | 2.29 | 8 | 3.94 | 38 | 10.35 |
Nr burnt | 40 | 15.50 | 107 | 35.31 | 7 | 5.07 | 4 | 2.27 | 10 | 1.35 | 1 | 0.49 | 1 | 0.27 |
Cutmarks | 175 | 68.36 | 166 | 54.97 | 64 | 48.12 | 91 | 52.9 | 211 | 37.54 | 59 | 50.86 | 83 | 34.02 |
Percussion marks | 146 | 56.59 | 136 | 44.88 | 56 | 40.58 | 69 | 39.2 | 197 | 26.55 | 77 | 37.93 | 112 | 30.52 |
Retoucher | 23 | 8.98 | 37 | 12.25 | 8 | 6.0 | 11 | 6.40 | - | - | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2.46 |
Total NISP | 258 | 100 | 303 | 100 | 138 | 100% | 176 | 100 | 742 | 100 | 203 | 100 | 367 | 100 |