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THBFossilized Pleistocene Cave Bear Foot + Mandible
Lot 2b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Ancient Europe, Pleistocene epoch, ca. 1.2 million to 24,000 years ago. A massive fossilized foot of a European cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), with its almost humanlike form and long claws, and a fossilized mandible from the same species with its teeth intact. Wear on the teeth indicates that this was a fully grown adult individual. Enormous cave bears were first described in 1774, and scientists at the time thought their huge remains might be polar bears. Later scientists realized that they were once part of the group of megafauna that roamed Ice Age Europe - alongside mammoths, wooly rhinos, giant deer, and lions - and males of the species could be fifty percent larger than modern day grizzly bears. Ancient humans were aware of the animals and painted them on the walls of caves. Despite their fierce appearance, cave bears had a mostly vegetarian diet, and ultimately went extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum ca. 27000 to 24000 years ago, when the vegetation they relied upon disappeared. Size of mandible: 11" W x 4.25" H (27.9 cm x 10.8 cm)
Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection
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#149357The foot has been repaired above the wrist and the joints are held in place with wires; these wires are not visible. Mandible has been repaired from three pieces and has a weathered surface and some losses from the peripheries, but overall really nice preservation with the teeth in great condition.Condition
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