 The bear is featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them.The existence of an ancient bear cult among Neandertals in Western Eurasia in the Middle Paleolithic has been a topic of discussion spurred by archaeological findings.The Neanderthals would have worshiped the cave bear ("Ursus spelaeus") and ancient bear bones have been discovered in several different caves and are believed by some archaeologists to be evidence of a bear cult during the Paleolithic.