Reply to Grandal and Fernández: Hibernation can also cause high δ15N values in cave bears
- Erik Trinkaus*,† and
- Michael P. Richards‡,§
- *Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 1114, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130;
- ‡Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; and
- §Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Park Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
In our paper on stable isotopes from cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) in the Peçstera cu Oase (1), we erroneously misquoted the hypothesis of Fernández et al. (2). For this we apologize. However, this misinterpretation and their comments here have no impact our basic conclusion that the available stable isotope data …
†To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: trinkaus{at}artsci.wustl.edu
