Spy Cave

Spy Cave is located near Spy inside the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, province of Namur, Belgium above the left bank of the Orneau River. Classified as a premier Heritage web page of the Walloon Region, the vicinity ranks some of the most full-size paleolithic websites in Europe. The cave consists of numerous small chambers and corridors. Since the primary amateur investigations in the course of the late 19th century severa newbie and expert archaeologists have done excavations and eliminated all sediment deposits of the cave.

In 1886 Neanderthal fossils of awesome great have been found, which brought about the 19th century clinical network to sooner or later precise a paradigm shift and apprehend the present fossils Engis 2 and Neanderthal 1 and include the notion of the mutability of species in an evolutionary context. The excavation become carried out by way of Liege, archaeologist Marcel de Puydt and geologist Max Lohest. Paleontologist and zoologist Julien Fraipont posted the specimen description inside the American Anthropologist journal.