Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Position stratigraphique de la Formation de Souverain-Pré dans le Synclinorium de Dinant et le bassin de la Vesdre
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Lithostratigrafie van het Boven-Eoceen en van het Onder-Oligoceen in Noordwest België
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Nouveaux sondages pour l'étude hydrologique des eaux chaudes à Chaudfontaine
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Description géologique du site du viaduc de Sècheval à Remouchamps
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Boringen in het zuidwesten van de Gentse agglomeratie
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Onderzoek van de subbodem van het Scheldeestuarium in de omgeving van Oosterweel
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Analyse sporopollinique de dépôts oligocènes à Waasmunster
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Tournaisis "77-78". Effondrements à Kain et évolution récente de la nappe aquifère profonde
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Le sondage de Fays (Polleur)
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Reconnaissance de l'extension du filon de marcassite de Heure par géochimie de surface et sondages inclinés
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The structure of the Boom Clay at Ramsel
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The correlation of Famennian and Tournaisian deposits of the USSR and French-Belgian basin on conodonts
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Recherches sur les indices de minéralisations uranifères dans la région de Visé
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Ostracods and rock facies across the Givetian/Frasnian boundary interval in the Sourd d'Ave section at Ave-et-Auffe (Dinant Synclinorium, Ardenne, Belgium)
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Voedsel en wat daarbij komt kijken
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Offering up the very young at HK6
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Ostracods and rock facies across the Givetian/Frasnian boundary interval in the Sourd d'Ave section at Ave-et-Auffe (Dinant Synclinorium, Ardenne, Belgium).
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Prologue
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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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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”.
