A palaeobiological approach to the cave bears from Liñares and Eirós (Galicia, Spain)

Abstract

[Abstract] The sites of Liñares and Eirós are closely situated in the NW of Spain and both contains a large number of Ursus spelaeus remains. However, the chronology of these sites is different and correspond to different climatic conditions. Once considered the effects of the preservational biass in the deposit, the demographic particularities of each population can be explained in terms of the different climatic conditions suffered by the studied cave bear populations.