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ologique of Namur/ Later the same year Fraipont and Lohest pub- 

 lished an account of the discovery, with the first description of the 

 skeletal human remains, in the Bulletins of the Royal Academy of 

 Belgium/ 



According to this last-mentioned account, the terrace extended for 

 about 1 1 meters (36 feet) in front of the cave. The human bones were 

 found at a depth of 13 feet from the surface, which here rose con- 

 siderably higher than the threshold of the cave. The accumulations 

 that formed the terrace included rocks, fallen calcareous blocks and 

 debris, earth, many archeological traces of man's presence, and nu- 

 merous remains of fossil animals. They could be separated into 

 several strata, none of which showed any perceptible disturbance. 



Skeleton No. 2 lay 6 m. (nearly 20 ft.) to the south of the entrance 

 of the cave ; skeleton No. i was 2.50 m. (8.2 ft.) further in the same 

 direction. Skeleton No. i lay transversely to the axis of the cave, 



Fig. 18. — The terrace in front of the Spy Cave. (After Fraipont and Lohest.) 



with head to the east and feet to the west. It lay on the side with 

 one hand applied to the lower jaw. The bones were enclosed in an 

 undisturbed layer of argilaceous tufa, from which they could be 

 liberated only with much difficulty and damage. 



More in detail, a section of the deposits showed them to consist of : 



A. Brown earth and fallen rocks ; thickness approximately 2.90 m. 

 (over 9 ft.). No paleontological or human remains. 



B. Yellow argilaceous tufa, enclosing limestone blocks, 0.80 m. 

 (2^ ft.) in thickness. This layer could be broken only with difficulty 

 by the pick. It gave some bones of the mammoth and deer, and also 

 some worked flints. 



C. A stratum 15 cm. (6 ins.) thick, strongly colored red, and 

 containing many flint implements, rejects of stone industry, angular 



' De Puydt, M., and Lohest, M., L'homme contemporain du Mammouth a Spy. 

 C. R. Congr. de Namur, 1886. Also in a separate pamphlet. 



' Fraipont, J., and Lohest, M., La race humaine de Neanderthal ou de Can- 

 stadt en Belgique. Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, Vol. 12, pp. 741-784, 1886. 



