Lower jaw of Ternifine

The first of the lower jaw of Terni Fine (now Tighénif ) in Algeria, so as Terni Fine 1 denotes

The lower jaw of Ternifine (today: Tighénif ), also known as Ternifine 1 or Tighenif 1 , was discovered in 1954 in a quarry 20 km east of Muaskar in northwest Algeria . The site was known as early as 1872 and it was first dug there in 1931. Further excavations took place from 1954 to 1956, then again by a French-Algerian team from 1981 to 1983.

The lower jaw Tighénif 1 , discovered in 1954, was assigned to the person initially referred to as Atlanthropus mauritanicus , today more as Homo erectus mauritanicus (a local variant of Homo erectus ) or Homo mauritanicus . Homo erectus mauritanicus has been dated to about 700,000 years, but 780,000 years are also mentioned. This makes it the oldest human remains in Northwest Africa. The other human remains found since then consist of two lower jaws (Tighénif 2, 3), a parietal bone (Tighénif 4) and several teeth, four of which probably come from an 8 to 10 year old child.

literature

Jean-Jacques Hublin : Northwestern African Middle Pleistocene hominids and their bearing on the emergence of Homo sapiens , in: Lawrence Barham, Kate Robson-Brown (eds.): Human Roots. Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene , University of Bristol, 2001, pp. 99-121, in particular pp. 101 f.

Remarks

↑ Camille Arambourg: Récentes découvertes de paleontologie humaine réalisées en Afrique du Nord française (L'Atlanthropus de Ternifine - L'Hominien de Casablanca) , in: JD Clark, S. Cole (ed.): Third Panafrican Congress on Prehistory. Livingstone 1955 , London 1957, pp. 186-194.
↑ Art. Tighenif , in: Bernard Wood (Ed.): Wiley-Blackwell Student Dictionary of Human Evolution , John Wiley & Sons, 2015, p. 429.
↑ Denis Geraads: The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle / Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa , in: Jean-Jacques Hublin , Shannon P. McPherron (ed.): Modern Origins. A North African Perspective , Springer 2012, pp. 49–60, here: p. 54.
^ Ian Shaw , Robert Jameson (eds.): A Dictionary of Archeology , Wiley & Sons 2002, p. 570.

[1] Camille Arambourg: Récentes découvertes de paleontologie humaine réalisées en Afrique du Nord française (L'Atlanthropus de Ternifine - L'Hominien de Casablanca) , in: JD Clark, S. Cole (ed.): Third Panafrican Congress on Prehistory. Livingstone 1955 , London 1957, pp. 186-194.

[2] Art. Tighenif , in: Bernard Wood (Ed.): Wiley-Blackwell Student Dictionary of Human Evolution , John Wiley & Sons, 2015, p. 429.

[3] Denis Geraads: The Faunal Context of Human Evolution in the Late Middle / Late Pleistocene of Northwestern Africa , in: Jean-Jacques Hublin , Shannon P. McPherron (ed.): Modern Origins. A North African Perspective , Springer 2012, pp. 49–60, here: p. 54.

[4] Ian Shaw , Robert Jameson (eds.): A Dictionary of Archeology , Wiley & Sons 2002, p. 570.