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... mandibles have been found (Fig. 3, 4). Generally, hyena mandibles are found in cave de- posits to be broken out into the left and right bones; however, several mandible bones in the material from Geographical Society Cave kept coalescence. These specimens belong to the old individuals, which are confirmed by the pronounced wear of the tooth ...
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... hyena mandibles (excepting ZIN 34490-7) ex- hibit broken lower margins (in front of the symphysis) (Fig. 3). These mandibles may have been damaged by large carnivores cracking them along the mandibular canal; as a result, tooth roots are frequently exposed in a break (see also Brain 1981;Stiner 1994). Most probably, mandibles were gnawed by other hyenas, and examples of cannibalism or consumption of con- gener corpses have been recorded in ...
