Spy ( wa, Spî) is a village of
Wallonia
Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...
and a district of the municipality of
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (; wa, Djimepe-so-Sambe) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
On 1 January 2006, the municipality had 17,990 inhabitants. The total area is , giving a population density of 384 inhabitants ...
, located in the
province of Namur
Namur (; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and the French depart ...
,
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
.
Here in 1886, in Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect
Neanderthal
Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While th ...
skeletons (man and woman) at the depth of , with numerous implements of the
Mousterian
The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia. The Mousterian largely defines the latt ...
type. Recently Yves Saquet found a third skeleton of the same age.
[RTBF Belgian television news, 19.01.2010]
File:Spy - St-Amand 110114 (1).JPG, The church of St. Amand (1900).
File:Spy Skull.jpg, Neanderthal
Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While th ...
Skull
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, the ...
, found in 1886 in Spy, one of the main sites importance for the proof of the existence of the human species of Neanderthal
File:Spy Commemoration plate.jpg, Commemoration plate for the archaeologists working Spy
See also
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Grotte de Spy
Spy Cave (french: Grotte de Spy) is located in Wallonia near Spy in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Namur Province, Belgium above the left bank of the Orneau River. Classified as a premier Heritage site of the Walloon Region, the location ...
References
External links
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Former municipalities of Namur (province)
Belgium geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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