Cavemen, Cave Bears Battled Over Turf : Discovery News
This strikes me as a kind of "Man Bites Dog" story: it is possible that the cave bears died out because WE ate THEM. (They were vegetarians.) Also, someone points out (rather obviously), the bears and the humans had to have coexisted for at least some time, because the humans painted pictures of the bears on the cave walls: you don't paint pictures of animals that are already extinct! I'm not fond of the dual-use theory of the caves: bears sleep there in winter, humans in summer. Why do we need a cave in the summer? (And don't say, "Because the bears are up and about...")
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