Researchers have recovered a large amount of bones from cave bears.

研究人员已经发现了大量洞穴熊的骨头。

These early Europeans made jewelry out of cave bear bones, not other animals, showing a connection to the bears, Hublin said.

胡布林说，这些早期欧洲人用洞穴熊的骨头制作珠宝，而不是其他动物，这表明他们与熊有联系。

Before this, scientists had only ever seen cave bear skeletal remains.

在此之前，科学家们只见过洞熊的骨骼遗骸。

They come from 23 species, including bison, red deer, cave bears and goats.

它们来自 23 个物种， 包括野牛、马鹿、洞熊和山羊。

The newly found items include stone tools and pendants made from cave bear teeth.

新发现的物品包括石器和由洞熊牙齿制成的吊坠。

Another gigantic relative, the Florida cave bear  emerged in North America about 250,000 years ago.

另一种体型巨大的近亲佛罗里达洞熊大约 25 万年前出现在北美。

And then it became possible to retrieve DNA from things like the mammoths or cave bears that lived at a similar time as the Neanderthals.

然后，从与尼安德特人生活在相似时期的猛犸象或洞熊等生物中提取 DNA 成为可能。