Neither fish nor fowl. Isotopic evidence of a plant-based diet in (captive?) brown bears from Roman Augusta Raurica, Switzerland

• Published in: Anthropozoologica
• Main Author: Gerling, Claudia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Association l'Homme et l'Animal 2023
• Subjects: Augusta; Omni; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://edoc.unibas.ch/94977/; https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2023v58a5

In Roman times, the brown bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758) was one of the most important hunted wild animal species. Bears were killed for e.g. their furs, their teeth and their meat. One of the reasons for catching bears alive was for their use in the context of public entertainment, i.e., animal...