Year: 2000
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper deals with a metrical comparison of cheek-teeth length of Ursus spelaeus Ros.Hein. \nIberian population representatives. Spanish cave bear localities are grouped in four different \nareas, Torres 1989) which we can tentatively suppose were connected during palaeoenvironmental \noptimi periods, but were isolated during the most of their existence. It is possible to interpret that \nthe cave bear population was on borrowed time in the Iberian Peninsula, in fact at the species \nborder, being strongly affected by sudden palaeonvironmental worsenings and growing human \n(middle and lower Palaeolithic representatives) pressure. In any case to compare dental sizes was a \nprocess full of uncertainties because of the lack of radioactive datings. Sex-dimorphism and sizetrends \nwere the origin of constraints too.
Author: Torres Pérez-Hidalgo, Trinidad José
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6987679631