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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENGIS , a See also:

cave on the See also:banks of the See also:Meuse near See also:Liege, See also:Belgium, where in 1832 Dr P. C. See also:Schmerling found human remains in deposits belonging to the See also:Quaternary See also:period. Bones of the cave-See also:bear, See also:mammoth, See also:rhinoceros and See also:hyena were discovered in association with parts of a See also:man's See also:skeleton and a human See also:Skull. This, known as " the Engis Skull," gave rise to much discussion among anthropologists, since it has characteristics of both high and See also:low development, the forehead, low and narrow, indicating slight intelligence, while the abnormally large See also:brain cavity contradicts this conclusion. Of it See also:Huxley wrote: " There is no See also:mark of degradation about any See also:part of its structure. It is a See also:fair See also:average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a See also:savage." Dr Schmerling concluded that the human remains were those of man who had been contemporary with the See also:extinct mammals. As, however, fragments of coarse pottery were found in the cave which See also:bore other See also:evidence of having been used by See also:neolithic man, by whom the cave-See also:floor and its contents might have been disturbed and mixed, his arguments have not been regarded as conclusive. There is, however, no doubt as to the See also:great See also:age of the Engis Skull. Discoveries of a like nature were made by Dr Schmerling in the neighbourhood in the caves of Engihoul, Chokier and others. See P. C.

Schmerling, Recherches sur See also:

les ossements decouverts clans les cavernes de la See also:province Liege (1833); Huxley, Man's See also:Place in Nature, p. 156; See also:Lord See also:Avebury, Prehistoric Times, p. 317 (1900).

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