Mortality analysis of Pleistocene bears and its paleoanthropological relevance

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• cave 52%
• Pleistocene 43%
• mortality 43%
• hibernation 27%
• tooth 25%
• bear 22%
• Paleolithic 20%
• predator 16%
• artifact 16%
• analysis 15%
• cave deposit 14%
• starvation 11%
• demography 10%
• carnivore 10%
• age structure 10%
• hunting 9%
• method 8%
• stone 8%
• volcanic eruption 8%
• bone 7%
• human activity 7%
• need 5%
• test 3%

Agriculture & Biology

• caves 63%
• Ursus 26%
• Ursidae 21%
• hibernation 18%
• teeth 14%
• death 12%
• tooth wear 12%
• predators 12%
• Ursus arctos 11%
• methodology 11%
• Eurasia 10%
• carnivores 8%
• demography 8%
• age structure 8%
• starvation 7%
• bones 7%
• Turkey (country) 7%
• testing 6%
• sampling 2%

Social Sciences

• Mortality Analysis 100%
• mortality 48%
• artifact 25%
• death 20%
• age structure 17%
• cause 16%
• demography 15%
• Turkey 11%
• evidence 6%
• time 5%