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that the human bones were contained in a very hard bed, from 

 which they were removed with difficulty, together with tlie care- 

 ful examinations of MM. Fraipont and Lohest at the time of find- 

 ing, preclude any hy- 

 pothesis of burial or 

 change of position due 

 to reworking of strata. 

 The only logical 

 conclusion is, that the 

 men of Spy died at the 

 entrance of the cave 

 that served them for a 

 home, on the ground 

 that was partly formed 

 of their kitchen debris. 

 The animal remains 

 found on a level with 

 and below the Spy skel- 

 etons were woolly rhi- 

 noceros (abundant), 

 fossil horse (very abun- 

 dant), red deer (rare), 

 reindeer (very rare), 

 aurochs (plentiful), 

 mammoth (common), 

 cave bear (rare), badg- 

 er (rare), cave hyena (abundant). The utensils found at the side 

 of the skeletons were two triangular pointed flint instruments 

 dressed on one face, a thin polished sandstone, many unformed 

 flint splinters, and a bone instrument. 



If we adopt the classification of Quaternary man, based on the 

 associated fauna and archaeological remains, proposed by M. de 

 Mortillet, this man of Spy belongs to the Moustieriennes period. 

 M. de Mortillett recognizes a Quaternary human station earlier 

 than this, but from it there have been no human bones reported. 



The two fossiliferous beds, C and B, above the skeletons, also 

 contained archaeological remains. Without taking time to de- 

 scribe these, it may be stated that both beds contained flints of 

 the same type as those in the bed with the skeletons ; also bone 

 and ivory instruments. The flint instruments were more elabo- 

 rate in workmanship and finish, progressively so, being more so 

 in B than in C. 



MM. Fraipont and Lohest regard the men of Spy as being of 

 the same age and type as the Neanderthal and Cannstadt men. 



The superimposed outline drawings (upon the screen) of a side 

 and top view of the skulls, in which the solid line represents the 



Fig. 6. Skull of the Man of Spy. From Prof. G. F. 

 Wright's Man and the Ghieial Period. (From a photo- 

 graph.) 



