The researchers analysed mitochondrial DNA extracted from cave bear bones collected across Switzerland, Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Serbia. They were able to map where cave bears ...

In 1953, a bear bone was discovered in the Dziadowa Skała Cave, which is located in southern Poland. The bone measured four ...

Tool markings found on the fossilized bones of a 300,000-year-old prehistoric cave bear seem to indicate that humans in Europe skinned the animals, a new study found. The markings were found on ...

The bone preserved just enough anatomy for the ... It was so large that Max Planck paleoanthropologist Bence Viola mistook it for a cave bear tooth. Only when its DNA was tested was it confirmed ...

The bones were found associated with stone tools and artefacts, such as pendants made from cave bear teeth. Tsenka Tsanova These resemble examples found at later sites believed to have been ...

Among them, the tiger and bear were considered Peking ... the course of a quarter of a million years. The bones of Peking Man discovered in the cave in the hill's north face include six complete ...

The oldest agreed-upon musical instruments are flutes carved out of mammoth ivory and bird bones, found in multiple ... made from a cave bear femur, was dated to over 50,000 years ago and is ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

The bones of at least 26 Ice Age animals—including those of an elephant-like gomphothere (above)—litter the floor of Hoyo Negro (left), the underwater cave where divers found Naia’s remains.

For instance, it has been observed that Levallois points often bear impact ... Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, a small assemblage of mollusks was found, in addition to a few marine mammal bones (monk ...

If we can trust the scratch marks on the bones of animals retrieved ... followed by a meal of brown bear from Alice and Gwendoline Cave, Co Clare (c 10,500 BCE). These would generally be ...