How Did Neanderthals Hunt Enormous Cave Bears?
By Rosie McCall
26 Mar 2018, 17:30
The now-extinct cave bear had a lot to contend with back in the day. Not only were there the bitter colds of the Late Pleistocene era (126,000 to 11,700 years ago), climate-change-induced food shortages, and the occasional cave lion attack but bands of Neanderthals would regularly ambush sleeping bears as they awoke from their annual slumber.
According to a paper recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the bears were targeted by the ancient hominins for their pelts, meat, and living quarters.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthals-ambushed-hibernating-cave-bears-for-their-pelts-meat-and-to-steal-their-caves/
