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Book Reference Analyse sporopollinique de dépôts oligocènes à Waasmunster
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Book Reference Tournaisis "77-78". Effondrements à Kain et évolution récente de la nappe aquifère profonde
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Book Reference Le sondage de Fays (Polleur)
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Book Reference Reconnaissance de l'extension du filon de marcassite de Heure par géochimie de surface et sondages inclinés
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Book Reference The structure of the Boom Clay at Ramsel
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Book Reference The correlation of Famennian and Tournaisian deposits of the USSR and French-Belgian basin on conodonts
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Book Reference Recherches sur les indices de minéralisations uranifères dans la région de Visé
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Article Reference Prologue
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Article Reference History of excavations, discoveries and collections.
Spy cave, also known as the Betche aux Rotches cave, is one of the most famous Palaeolithic sites in Belgium. Excavated on numerous occasions beginning in 1879, the remains of two adult Neandertals were discovered in 1886. For the first time in the history of palaeoanthropology, human fossils were found in a stratigraphic context associated with rich archaeological material including the remains of extinct megafauna. The history of work at Spy presented here is based on a review of publications concerning the various excavations, the Lohest and Vercheval-De Puydt family archives, as well as inventories and archives possessed by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the Royal Museums of Art and History. This archival review clarifies several aspects concerning the discovery of the two Neandertal specimens, particularly in light of new studies concerning the Spy material which is now dispersed amongst several public and private collections.
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Article Reference Through the correspondence: the little story of the “Spy bones”.
In the summer 1886, the Neandertal fossils of Spy were unearthed in the so-called Betche aux Rotches cave. Ever since, they have been through many events and have been the stake of discords, sometimes impassioned, between the various protagonists of their discovery and their conservation. The succession of these events will be redrawn here and the positions of each cleared up in the light of the rereading of two archives collections coming from the discoverers, namely the correspondence collection of Maximin Lohest, which is Mrs Dallemagne-Ophoven’s property, and the correspondence collection of Marcel De Puydt, handed over to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), which we shall refer to as “the Vercheval collection”.
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