63 Comte Goblet d’Auriella, _Bul. Acad. Royale de Belgique_, 1889. 64 G. Atkinson, _Congrès Préhistorique_, Lisbon, 1880, p. 466. 65 “Ages Préhistoriques en Espagne et Portugal,” figs 410, 411, 412, p. 286. 66 Aussland, 1883. _Zeitschrift für Museologie and Antequaten Kunde_, 1884. Musœon, 1888 and 1889. 67 Virchow, who visited the remains at Hissarlik, treats this idea as _furchtbaren Unsinn_ (ridiculous nonsense). CHAPTER VIII. Tombs. The true history of man will be found in his tombs, says Thucydides; and as a matter of fact the sepulchre has ever occupied much of the thoughts of man, the result of a religious sentiment, a conviction that all does not end with the life which so quickly passes by. From the very earliest times we meet with tokens of the hopes and fears connected with a future existence; but, as I have already stated, the human bones that can with certainty be said to date from Palæolithic times are very rare. We know but very few facts justifying us in asserting that the contemporary of the mammoth and of the cave bear had already learnt to respect the remains of what had once been a man like himself. One of these few facts deserves, I think, to be noticed with some detail. In 1886, excavations in the cave of Spy1 (Namur), or rather in a terrace some thirty-six feet long by nineteen and a half wide giving access to it, brought to light two human skeletons. One was that of an individual already advanced in life, probably of the feminine sex, the other of a man in the prime of life. These skeletons were imbedded in a very hard breccia containing also fragments of ivory and numerous flints of very small size. Some of them had very fine scratches on both sides. From what I could learn on the spot, the skeletons when found were in a recumbent position. The bones, few of which were missing, were still in their natural position, and near to one of them were picked up several arrow- or lance-heads, one of which, of phtanite, some two and a half inches long, was of the purest Moustérien type. The bones were those of short, squat individuals, and the skulls were of the type of the Canstadt race, the most ancient of which anything is known; the thickness of the crania was about one third of an inch. The forehead, is low and retreating, the eyebrows are prominent, and the lower jaws strong and well developed. At the same level and in that immediately above it were picked up the remains of the mammoth, the _Rhinoceros tichorhinus_, the cave bear, and the large cave hyena, the reindeer, and numerous other mammals belonging to the Quaternary fauna. Everything points to the conclusion that the man and woman whose remains have so opportunely come to light were contemporary with these animals, and that their bodies were placed after death in the cave in which they were found.