article_snippet.sent: The cave bear femur, pierced with two holes, was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe Archaeological park near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia.
article_snippet.sent: In most caves, carnivore damage like this can be seen in about 20 per cent of animal remains and 80 per cent of bear cub remains.
article_snippet.sent: But while adult remains were often ‘crushed to pieces’, bear cubs often had certain patterns like this.
article_snippet.sent: The cave bear femur, pierced with two holes, was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe Archaeological park (shown) near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia .
article_snippet.sent: This is known due to lack of breakage on most of the cave bear cub femora, which generally show additional diagonal zigzag margins (from chewing joints by scissor teeth of hyenas) or have triangular or smaller scratch tooth marks.