The bear has appeared in cave paintings dated from the time early humans were moving throughout Europe, so we know that the two species came into contact frequently.

Ancient humans may have hunted the prehistoric European cave bear to extinction at the end of the last Ice Age 40,000 years ago. Researchers headed-up by the University of Zurich looked at animal ...

Humans played a much bigger role than previously thought in driving the cave bear to extinction, ... which completely died out about 24,000 years ago and typically lived in Asia and Europe, ...

Humans started using cave bear skins 320,000 years ago, and with the appearance of Homo sapiens in Europe 45,000 years ago, hunting pressure on the animal intensified until Ursus spelaeus became ...

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts.

European cave bears went extinct between 27,000 to 28,000 years ago, according to Britannica. The cave bears were anywhere from 880 to 2,200 pounds and similar in size to Kodiak bears found in ...

Human remains found deep in a Polish cave bear unmistakable signs of butchery. ... The term "Magdalenian" refers to prehistoric humans who lived in Europe between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago.

In order to endure Europe’s frigid winters, Stone Age humans likely wrapped themselves in ponchos fashioned from cave bear skins, according to a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution ...

They didn’t properly consider the bone biting and crushing patterns of ice age hyenas that scavenged extensively in European cave bear dens. In a recent Royal Society Open Science paper, Diedrich ...

European cave bears went extinct between 27,000 to 28,000 years ago, according to Britannica. The cave bears were anywhere from 880 to 2,200 pounds and similar in size to Kodiak bears found in ...