The Cave Bear Story: Life and Death of a Vanished Animal [Hardcover]

Bjorn Kurten (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0231040172 | ISBN-13: 978-0231040174 | Publication Date: September 1976 | Edition: First edition.

Complete with brilliant illustrations, this book conveys the astonishing facts about the largest of bears, including the structure, habits, and society of cave bears, their Ice Age environment, sexual and racial variations, and extinction. Kurtin also details the relationship between man and bear-namely the theories surrounding bear-hunting and cave bear cults.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The life and death of the vanished cave bear is probed in a fine survey of its evolution, probable habits, and existence. This considers the bear's environment and other mammals, and its probable lifestyle as drawn from teeth and bone fossils and early cave drawings: remarkably detailed considering the scarcity of primary source materials. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

DAVID P. CELANI is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Vermont. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 163 pages
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr; First edition. edition (September 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231040172
• ISBN-13: 978-0231040174
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,742,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cave Bears, May 10, 2009

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This review is from: The Cave Bear Story (Paperback)

As the name says the Cave Bear Story tells everything about the life of the Giant Bears of the prehistoric world their size and sites where the fossils where discovered.