NEANDERTHAL MAN 
C. This stratum, with the underlying few inches of 
earth, covered the human skeletons. Contents: Bones of 
many Quaternary animals; abundance of flint blades, 
Mousterian points, and other flint implements, in general 
of less refined make than those of layer B; also implements 
of bone and ivory. Among the bones were needles, awls, 
beads, and pendants, and a number of bones were deco- 
rated with linear designs. Some of the bone pendants 
evidently had once been colored red. 
D-F. The stratum of the two human skeletons. This 
gave also some bones of Quaternary animals, and some 
stone implements of Mousterian type but inferior in work- 
manship to those from the layers above. 
The human remains, the authors thought, were not 
burials but incidental inclusions. As the middle, hard- 
ened stratum was found undisturbed, the skeletons could 
not have been more recent than this stratum. 
Considering the animal and archeological remains as- 
sociated with the human skeletons, together with the 
absence of disturbance in the superimposed and more 
recent layers, Lohest believed himself justified in referring 
Spy remains to the Mousterian period. The deductions 
of Fraipont, based on the study of the skeletal remains 
themselves, were that they belonged to Neanderthal man. 
Since then the Spy remains have received more or less 
careful consideration by every student of early man, and 
the above classification was found to need no radical 
revision. 
What remained of the Spy skeletons was preserved, up 
to the German invasion in 1914, in the collections of the 
University of Liége, where thanks to the courtesy of 
MM. M. Lohest, Charles Fraipont, and J. Servais, Doctor 
Hrdli¢ka was enabled to examine the originals for the 
first time (1912). During the invasion, the remains, 
the property of M. Lohest, were secreted by the latter in 
his home, at the bottom of an old chest, and, though 
searched for, remained safe. Here, in the presence of the 
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