Ain Hanech

Ain Hanech

Tabula Algerii orientalis situm Ain Hanech demonstrans

Ain Hanech est locus archaeologicus Algerii, ab urbe El Eulma^(fr) fere 7 chm ad boream et orientem versus distans, a loco archaeologico Ain Boucherit 200 metris tantum, ubi vestigia habitationis hominum palaeolithicorum cultus Oldowayi, annis fere 1 800 000 a.p. frequentatae, reperta sunt. Ossa ibi latebant specierum Mammuthi meridionalis, Ceratotherii mauritanici, Equi tabeti permulta, Hippopotami amphibii, Kolpochoeri phacochoeroidis, Silvatherii maurusii, Giraffae pomeli, Bovis bubaloidis, Bovis praeafricani, Numidocaprae crassicornis, Gazellae pomeli, Taurotragi gaudri, Canis atrocis, Crocutae crocutae, Prygis el-eulmensis, Alcelaphi sp., Gorgonis mediterranei.

Bibliographia

• Camille Arambourg, "Les Vertébrés du Pleistocène de l’Afrique du Nord" in Archives du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle ser. 7 vol. 1 (1970) pp. 1–127.
• Camille Arambourg, Vertébrés Villafranchiens d’Afrique du Nord. Lutetiae: Singer-Polignac, 1979.
• Mohamed Sahnouni, "The North African Early Stone Age and the Sites at Ain Hanech, Algeria" in Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick, edd., The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age (Gosport Indianae: Stone Age Institute Press, 2006) p. 77 ff.
• Mohamed Sahnouni et al., "Further research at the Oldowan site of Ain Hanech, North-eastern Algeria" in Journal of Human Evolution vol. 43 (2002) pp. 925-937 Epitome.
• Mohamed Sahnouni, Jean de Heinzelin, "The Site of Ain Hanech Revisited: New Investigations at this Lower Pleistocene Site in Northern Algeria" in Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 25 (1998) pp. 1083–1101.

Nexus externi

• "The hominids of Ain Hanech^{[nexus deficit]}" apud CORDIS
• "Le gisement Oldowayen d'Ain El Hanech" apud urbem Sitifem
• "Paleoanthropological Research at Ain Hanech, Algeria" apud Stone Age Institute