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The fauna and associated artefacts from the Lower Pleistocene site of Mansourah (Constantine, Algeria)

Yasmina CHAID-SAOUDI, Denis GERAADS & Jean-Paul RAYNAL

en Comptes Rendus Palevol 5 (8) - Pages 963-971

Published on 31 December 2006

The site of Mansourah (Constantine, Algeria) had yielded to the early authors, and more recently to the late G. Laplace, a lithic industry associated with a fauna of large Mammals, which looks contemporaneous with that of Aïn Hanech, although it is well-distinct ecologically, and might even be slightly older. The lithic assemblage is completely devoid of any bifacial artefact or cleaver and can only be referred to the Oldowan. Thus, the Mansourah site documents a very early human occupation of North Africa, and perhaps one of the earliest.


Keywords:

North Africa, Algeria, Oldowan, Mammalian fauna, Lower Pleistocene, Early Homo

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