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Dear all, I was wondering if there are cutmarks to be expected if one skins a larger mammal's head and where these would be? Was the head skinned at all in ancient times? Would they want to preserve the skin without the bone? I was wondering about these questions because I have a maxilla from an adult hyena in my material from Aswan which shows hack marks behind P3 reaching through the orbit and some small cuts at the preserved part of the orbit (zygomatic bone) as well as at the dorso-oral rim of the fragment. Would you think this animal was skinned? I found several references to Binford (1981), Bones : ancient men and modern myths. Does someone have a pdf copy of this book by chance? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Johanna Sigl PhD candidate Institute for Egyptology Institute for Paleoanatomy LMU Munich