MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
and maxilla suggests either that decomposition was not complete at 
the time of deposition or that the jaw was fastened to the skull by 
a thong or string. In either case it seems impossible to avoid the 
conclusion that the skull was intentionally preserved, either as a 
trophy or in fulfilment of a pious rite. 
The human skull is described most carefully and with 
much detail by Professor Buxton. The main results of 
his study are: 
The Devil’s Tower bones are the remains of a single individual skull 
belonging to a child of five years old, probably of the male sex. . . . 
The form of the face and jaws is essentially that which we associate 
with Neanderthal man. Many of these features can be shown, how- 
ever, to owe their characteristic appearance partly to the great size 
of the teeth and partly to functional activities, but the general mas- 
siveness, not only of the jaws but also of such features as the tympanic 
plate, is remarkable. 
. . . The dimensions and form of the brain-case, especially the 
expansion of the frontal area, are beyond the range of Neanderthal 
man, as hitherto discovered, if we make the same allowance for age 
that we should do in the case of a modern child. These conditions 
suggest a brain-case built more after the fashion of modern than of 
Neanderthal man. . . . The teeth of our specimen closely resemble 
in size and shape those usually associated with Neanderthal man. 
The face and jaws must therefore necessarily be close to the typical 
Neanderthal form. The brain-case is, however, different from the 
type form, because the underlying structure, the brain, was larger. 
THE Spy SKELETONS 
In the province of Namur, in Belgium, there is a steep 
wooded mountainside in the district of Spy, which 1s 
skirted by the little river Orneau. A great rock standing 
sentinel-like has at its base, sixty feet above the stream, 
a cave now called the cave of Spy, which opens toward 
the south. Several times during the last century the 
accumulations within the cave were searched by anti- 
quarians and yielded worked flints and bones dating from 
Late Stone Age cultures. 
In 1885 MM. Marcel de Puydt and Maximin Lohest, 
archeologist and geologist, respectively, examined the 
region of the cave more systematically. A terrace at its 
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