The brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Holocene Britain: a review of the evidence

HJ O'Regan - Mammal Review, 2018 - eprints.nottingham.ac.uk
1. The brown bear, Ursus arctos, was Holocene Britain's largest carnivoran and has
appeared in recent rewilding discussions. 2. Despite widespread interest, we know very little …

A new find of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) from Star Carr and other finds in the Late Glacial and Post Glacial of Britain and Denmark

N Noe-Nygaard - Journal of archaeological science, 1983 - Elsevier
A vertebra of a Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) is described from the Mesolithic settlement Star
Carr. This is the first record of the species from the site. The presence of Brown Bear in a …

Man and bear in Europe

C Matheson - Antiquity, 1942 - cambridge.org
The faunal environment of man, as is well known, has profoundly affected his mental as well
as his physical life. The Altamira and other animal-drawings made by Palaeolithic man …

One of the last wild brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the Netherlands (Noordwijk)

J van der Plicht, WJ Kuijper, IKA Verheijen… - Lutra, 2016 - research.rug.nl
Early in 2016, bones of a left front leg of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) were found in the
dunes between Noordwijk and Zandvoort (Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen-Amsterdam …

Holocene brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) from Norwegian caves

E Østbye, SE LAURITZEN, K Østbye, Ø Wiig - Boreas, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Norwegian caves contain stratigraphical information regarding the historical faunal
composition valuable in the assessment of postglacial colonization and phylogeographical …

Could brown bears (Ursus arctos) have survived in Ireland during the Last Glacial Maximum?

SA Leonard, CL Risley, ST Turvey - Biology Letters, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Brown bears are recorded from Ireland during both the Late Pleistocene and early–mid
Holocene. Although most of the Irish landmass was covered by an ice sheet during the Last …

Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) from Kainsbakke, East Jutland

J Richter - journal of Danish Archaeology, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
Brown Bear bones from Kainsbakke demonstrate exploitation by Neolithic man. Various cut
marks on the bones are definitely of human origin and illustrate utilization of bears for both …

Further documentation supporting the former existence of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in northern Quebec-Labrador

S Loring, A Spiess - Arctic, 2007 - JSTOR
The discovery in 1976 of a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) skull in an 18th-century Labrador Inuit
midden effectively ended speculation about the former existence of the species in the …

Life and death of the Westbury bears

P Andrews, A Turner - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 1991 - JSTOR
Remains of the middle Pleistocene cave bear, Ursus deningeri Reichenau, recovered from
the cave deposits at Westbury-sub-Mendip near Bristol, England, are described. The age …

More fossil bear remains in some Dutch collections

DP Bosscha Erdbrink - Scripta Geologica, 1982 - repository.naturalis.nl
Seven fossil specimens, inscribed in five different Dutch collections, are identified as
remains of brown bears, Ursus arctos L. Three items are postcranial skeletal parts, two are …