Spy, Belgium
Spy is a village in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre near Namur, Belgium.
Here in 1886, in Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect Neanderthal skeletons (man and woman) at the depth of 16 feet (4.9 m), with numerous implements of the Mousterian type. Recently Yves Saquet found a third skeleton of the same age.[1]
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The church of St. Amand (1900).
Skull, found in 1886 in Spy, one of the main sites importance for the proof of the existence of the human species of Neanderthal
Commemoration plate for the archaeologists working Spy
See also
References
- ↑ RTBF Belgian television news, 19.01.2010
External links
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Coordinates: 50°29′N 4°42′E / 50.483°N 4.700°E
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