Live Auction 5267Travel, Science & Natural History
A CAVE BEAR SKULL
Lot 43

A CAVE BEAR SKULL

ROMANIA

Closed10 April 2014

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GBP 2,125

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A CAVE BEAR SKULL
ROMANIA
from the Pleistocene (circa 70,000 ya) the skull with one incisor tooth to the upper jaw of of an Ursus speleus, on wooden stand
22½in. (57cm.) long on stand

Specialist note

One of the great animals of the last Ice Age, the cave bear had a range across most of Europe and into Russia. Its hibernation in caves gives rise to the name, and explains why skeletal remains are so well preserved. Along with the many other megafauna their extinction happened 27,5000 years ago during the rise of humans and a time of great climate change.