A bear body made from clay with a bear skull in between its paws, made during the Upper Paleolithic (between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago) and found in the Montespan cave in France. Riddled with holes from spear points, it was possibly used to teach hunting, or perhaps used for a ritual [681×460]
by Fuckoff555
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The skull in the image was placed there for recounstruction since the skull that was originally discovered was stolen.
> In as letter of August 7, 1974, M. Casteret tells of the fate of this skull, discovered more than fifty years earlier. He left it in place to be viewed by the experts who were immediately summoned to the Montespan cave. In the intervening two days, a small channel was dug to drain the inner part of the cave, which was flooded. But on returning to the statue, M. Casteret and the invited experts were startled to find the skull gone – stolen! So this skull, seen only by Casteret and Godin, was lost to science, and we shall probably never know which kind of bear was involved in the ritual of Montespan.
[https://megafaunarituals.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/montespan-cave-headless-ritual-bear/](https://megafaunarituals.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/montespan-cave-headless-ritual-bear/)
[https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_de_Montespan](https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_de_Montespan)
Just as a wild guess: maybe was done by kids just to play. Keep my comment as it is, a wild guess. No real backup, no evidence.