Gravettian hunting and exploitation of bears in Central Europe

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Wojtal, Piotr, Wilczyński, Jarosław, Nadachowski, Adam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2015
• Subjects: Ursus Spelaeus; Ursus Arctos; Butchering Marks; Upper Palaeolithic; Cave Bear Hunting; Flint; Jura; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/2211; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.10.017

Evidence of hunting and exploitation of cave bears (Ursus spelaeus, sensu lato) are recently documented in western and eastern sites of its former European distribution in Middle and Upper Palaeolithic contexts. Human hunting and exploitation has always been accepted for brown bears (Ursus arctos) b...