The Site of Ain Hanech Revisited: New Investigations at this Lower Pleistocene Site in Northern Algeria

Sahnouni, Mohamed; Heinzelin, Jean de

doi:10.1006/jasc.1998.0278

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“…In comparison with the 13 genera dispersing from Africa between 3.0-0.5 Ma, only four genera definitely entered the continent over the same period: Equus, Nyctereutes, Lycaon and Antilope, although Mammuthus meridionalis is reported at Ain Hanech in Algeria (Sahnouni and de Heinzelin, 1998).…”

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Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Discoveries of fossil Homo outside Africa predating 1.0 Ma have generated much discussion about hominin dispersal routes. However, tool-using bipeds were only one element of the inter-continental mammalian dispersals that occurred during the climatic changes of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. This paper will place hominin movements in the context of those of the wider mammalian fauna, which includes carnivores, bovids and non-human primates. The distribution of these different taxa suggests that species moved individually when the environmental conditions were right for them, rather than in multi-species waves of dispersal, and allows evaluation of the contextual evidence for the newly emerging 'Out of Asia' paradigm as well as the established 'Out of Africa' model.

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Section: Into Africamentioning

confidence: 91%

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…Limestone hammerstones and anvils were likely used for the bipolar knapping sequences that are well documented for flint reduction [35]. This limestone/flint size range and functional duality are also documented at other Early Palaeolithic sites where these two raw materials were used, such as Ubeidiya [32,56] and Aïn Hanech [52].…”

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“…The type-specific configuration of these tools is intriguing and raises questions about the kinds of activities that could have resulted in such intense, unifacial stigma on an abrupt, nosed tool. The presence of HDS in other Oldowan sites in Africa and Eurasia is significant and, although they are diversely interpreted as cores or tools, this could suggest some kind of functional-formal continuity [51,52].…”

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Limestone percussion tools from the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)

Barsky

Vergès

Sala

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of percussion scars and breakage patterns on hammerstones, cores and tools from Oldowan African and Eurasian lithic assemblages. Oldowan stone toolkits generally contain abundant small-sized flakes and their corresponding cores, and are characterized by their structural dichotomy of heavy- and light-duty tools. This paper explores the significance of the lesser known heavy-duty tool component, providing data from the late Lower Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain), dated 1.4–1.2 Myr. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the large-sized limestone industries from these two major sites, we present a new methodology highlighting their morpho-technological features. In the light of the results, we discuss the shortfalls of extant classificatory methods for interpreting the role of percussive technology in early toolkits. This work is rooted in an experimental program designed to reproduce the wide range of percussion marks observed on the limestone artefacts from these two sites. A visual and descriptive reference is provided as an interpretative aid for future comparative research. Further experiments using a variety of materials and gestures are still needed before the elusive traces yield the secrets of the kinds of percussive activities carried out by hominins at these, and other, Oldowan sites.

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“…In Algeria, on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, one of the few 'Oldowan' sites outside of East Africa is found at Ain Hanech. Sahouni's reexamination of this site (Sahnouni and de Heinzelin, 1998;Sahnouni et aI., 2002;Sahnouni, 2006) has documented an Oldowan lithic industry in sediments assigned to the Olduvai palaeomag netic event.…”

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Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity

Mishra

White

Beaumont

et al. 2007

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The Site of Ain Hanech Revisited: New Investigations at this Lower Pleistocene Site in Northern Algeria

Cited by 86 publications

References 23 publications

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Limestone percussion tools from the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)

Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity

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