Tighennif
Tighennif | |
|---|---|
Commune and town | |
Tighennif | |
| Country | Algeria |
| Province | Mascara Province |
| Palikao | 28 January 1870 |
| Population (2008) | |
• Total | 55,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Tighennif (Arabic: تيغنيف) is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.[1]
Fossil
- Ternifine or Tighennif is the home of a fossil human jawbone dating to the Middle Pleistocene, which French vertebrate paleontologist Camille Arambourg classified as Atlanthropus mauritanicus in 1955.[2]
Personalities
- Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao was a general associated with Tighennif.
- Henri Akoka, French-Algerian clarinetist.
References
- ^ Statoids
- ^ Arambourg, C. (1955). "Le gisement de Ternifine et l'Atlanthropus" [The deposits of Ternifine and Atlantanthropus]. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française (in French) (52): 94–95. JSTOR 27914994.