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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SPY , a See also:

commune near See also:

Namur, See also:

Belgium. Here in 1886, in Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and See also:

MARCEL, ETIENNE (d: 1358)

Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect skeletons (See also:

man and woman) at the See also:

DEPTH

depth of 16 ft., with numerous implements of the See also:

MOUSTERIAN

Mousterian type. All the human remains are now in the Lohest Collection, See also:

Liege. The skulls were characterized by enormous brows, retreating forehead, massive See also:

JAW (Mid. Eng. jawe, jowe and geowe, O. Eng. cheowan, connected with " chaw " and " chew," and in form with " jowl ")

jaw-bones, rudimentary See also:

CHIN

chin and large posterior molars. The skeletons were further marked by a divergent curvature of the bones of the fore-See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm; the See also:

TIBIA

tibia were shorter than in any other known See also:

RACE

race, and stouter than in most; the tibia and femur, being so articulated that to maintain See also:

EQUILIBRIUM (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and libra, a balance)

equilibrium the See also:

head and See also:

BODY

body must have been thrown forward, as in the gait of the larger apes. These characteristics justify placing " the man of Spy in the lowest See also:

CATEGORY (Gr. Karrlyopia, " accusation ")

category . . . the dentition is inferior to that of the See also:

NEOLITHIC, or LATER STONE AGE (Gr. vEOr, new, and XLOos, stone)

neolithic man in See also:

France . . , approximates near to the apes, although there is still, to use the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of Fraipont and Lohest, an See also:

ABYSS (Gr. as, privative, ,6u6QOs, bottom)

abyss between the man of Spy and the highest See also:

APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

ape " (E. D. See also:

Cope, " The See also:

GENEALOGY (from the Gr. yivos, family, and Vryos, theory)

Genealogy of Man " in The See also:

AMERICAN

American Naturalist, See also:

APRIL

April 1893, p. 334). With the skeletons were found bones of See also:

EXTINCT

extinct mammals, the woolly See also:

RHINOCEROS

rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus), See also:

mammoth (Elephas priini-See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius), and the See also:

cave-See also:

bear (Ursus spelaeus).

See also L'Homme contemporain du mammouth a Spy (Namur, 1887); G. de See also:

MORTILLET, LOUIS LAURENT GABRIEL DE (1821-1898)

Mortillet, Le Prehistorique (1900).

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