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Article Dans Une Revue C. R. Palevolution Année : 2006

Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) from the Peştera cu Oase (Banat, Romania): Paleobiology and taphonomy

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The 2002 discovery of the earliest European modern humans in the Peştera cu Oase (Romania) has led to systematic excavations of a bone bed (two levels), containing principally the remains of cave bears (ca. 5000 bones) and dated between 50 and 40 ka cal BP. The thanatocenosis corresponds mainly to a subadult and adult male utilization of the cavity. Levels 1 and 2 are distinguishable by different conservation processes demonstrating respectively low- and high-energy hydraulic transports. The heavy component of cannibalism may indicate bone processing for trace elements and/or a more omnivorous diet than is usually ascribed to cave bears
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halshs-00475374 , version 1 (21-04-2010)

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Jérôme Quilès, Catalin Petrea, Oana Moldovan, João Zilhão, Ricardo Rodrigo, et al.. Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) from the Peştera cu Oase (Banat, Romania): Paleobiology and taphonomy. C. R. Palevolution, 2006, 5, pp.927-934. ⟨halshs-00475374⟩
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