Lost words, lost worlds.

"Bärenschliffe" means "bear polishes". It's the word for cave rocks smoothed to marble by bears rubbing on or past them over thousands of years.

This one from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, Southwest France, has a bear drawn on it.
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