Prehistoric bear eating human bones is a photograph by Science Photo Library which was uploaded on March 7th, 2014.
Prehistoric bear eating human bones
Prehistoric bear eating human bones. Artwork of a now-extinct Ursus deningeri bear earing the remains of humans in the Sima de los Huesos (pit of... more
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Prehistoric bear eating human bones
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Prehistoric bear eating human bones. Artwork of a now-extinct Ursus deningeri bear earing the remains of humans in the Sima de los Huesos (pit of bones), in the caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. Ursus deningeri (Deninger's bear) was endemic to Europe from around 1.8 million years ago to 100,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch. It is thought that the remains found in the Sima de los Huesos were deposited as part of a symbolic ritual behaviour by Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct hominid that forms a relatively recent part of the human evolutionary tree. The remains, found in the 1990s, date to around 400,000 years ago.
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