The excavation was conducted by Liège-based archaeologist Marcel de Puydt and geologist Max Lohest.

Paleontologist and zoologist Julien Fraipont published the specimen description in the American Anthropologist journal.

[4] In addition publications of de Puydt, Lohest and Fraipoint disagree on the number of layers of knapped flints.

"[8] A paper in Anthropologica et Præhistorica states that the original excavators at Spy did not believe that the remains were deliberately buried in graves but that this hypothesis is "now widely accepted".

"[12] Pendants and perforated beads made from mammoth ivory, presumably by modern humans, were found in the cave.