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| Bartosiewicz, L. | |
| A leopard (_Panthera pardus_ L. 1758) find from the late middle ages in Hungary | |
| 2001 Series | |
Remains of large carnivores occur rather infrequently at archaeological sites in Hungary. During the Middle Ages, brown bear (_Ursus arctos_ L. 1758) is the only large carnivore whose remains are relatively common. It was for this reason that the large but fragmented intermaxillary fragment from a leopard (_Panthera pardus_ L. 1758) had been tentatively identified as that of bear, before a large series of over a hundred leopard skulls could be studied in detail. In addition to revising that erroneous hypothetical identification, the use of large reference collections was indispensable in trying to understand the status and origins of this very special achaeozoological find. |
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