[joan]

"This actually is more like the cases we've been dealing with, meaning fragments."

[Hoplite]

7   Right. This actually is more like the cases we've been
8   dealing with, meaning fragments. Let's just assume
9   again that we have two females that are from the same
10   side but are two different parts of the female. In
11   this one we got the top or proximal part of the bone
12   and the mid-part of the bone, and in this one we have
13   the mid-part and the bottom part, that is, the distal
14   part.
15   MR. CAYLEY: Mr. Baraybar, if I could just
16   interrupt you there. The witness is indicating, on
17   Exhibit 229, that in the left portion of the photograph
18   is the proximal portion of the femur, and in the
19   right-hand photograph, the distal portion of the right
20   femur.
21   Q. Please continue, sir.
22   A. Considering that we cannot actually fit these
23   two fragments and make one femur, we have to take again
24   a conservative approach and say that we assume that
25   these two fragments, although not fitting with one

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1   another, represent one individual. That would be the
2   way we would construct a minimal number of
3   individuals. Otherwise, we could say that these are
4   two femurs. But we are taking it as only one.

Is this really too complicated for you to understand?