That’s not as surprising as it sounds—there’s some evidence of people killing and even butchering other bear species, like large cave bears and brown bears, during the Pleistocene.

NEFUThe wholly-intact teeth of a prehistoric cave bear whose species went extinct about 20,000 years ago. The Siberian ...

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and ...

Russian paleontologists discovered the skull of a Pleistocene small cave bear with artificial damage in the Imanay Cave (Bashkiria, Russia). A bear aged 9–10 years was killed with a spear during ...

A recent Smithsonian Institution publication, which was anchored by former Calvert Museum Museum Director Ralph Eshelman, ...

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The bear, unearthed in 2020, was originally assumed to be an extinct cave bear that dated back at least 22,000 years. But a new necropsy reveals it is actually a brown bear that lived 3,500 years ago.

An artist’s depiction of early humans wearing cave bear skin ponchos ... according to the researchers. Other prehistoric groups around the world likely wore bear pelts as well, including Native ...

During excavations at the Hohle Fels cave ... gait of a bear." There have been many important archaeological finds at the Hohle Fels. Most of the discoveries are early forms of prehistoric art ...