ANIMAL CEMETERY
BONES OF 1000 BEARS FOUND IN SLOVENIAN CAYERN. Bones of no fewer than 1000 bears have heen found in a prehistoric cave at Ols ea, in Slovenia, making what the discoverers believe to be an animal cemetery unique in Europe. The cave — 65ft long and 16ft high — holds deposits of bones and other remains estimated at being 10,000 years old. Professor Brodar, in charge of the excavations, found in one spot the bones of a huge cave-bear and the scattered vertehrae of a prehistoric man, indicating the fate that had overeome one human hunter of the dawn age.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 2
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100ANIMAL CEMETERY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 2
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