[HTML][HTML] Dental microwear analysis of Kudaro cave bears: Insights into dietary evolution from the Middle to Late Pleistocene

P Duñó-Iglesias, I Ramírez-Pedraza, F Rivals… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dietary changes of early cave bear populations from the Middle to Late Pleistocene are
poorly understood. In this study, we analysed 60 m1 through dental microwear analysis of …

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

C Gerling - Anthropozoologica, 2023 - BioOne
In Roman times, the brown bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758) was one of the most
important hunted wild animal species. Bears were killed for eg their furs, their teeth and their …

Mandibular ecomorphology in the genus ursus (Ursidae, Carnivora): relevance for the palaeoecological adaptations of cave bears (U. spelaeus) from Scladina cave

D Charters, RP Brown, G Abrams, K Di Modica… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Considerable morphological and ecological diversity has been found in extinct and extant
members of the bear genus, Ursus, and appears to be key in explaining how they have …

New method for the isotopic study of ancient conchiolin from archaeological shells of freshwater mussels (Unionoida)

A García-Vázquez, V Radu, C Lazăr - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Freshwater mussels shells are common remains in archaeological sites of the Gumelnița
culture (5 th millennium BC, Romania), and were part of the diet of its ancient inhabitants …