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Tighennif

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Tighennif
Commune and town
Tighennif is located in Algeria
Tighennif
Tighennif
Location within Algeria
Country Algeria
ProvinceMascara Province
Palikao28 January 1870
Population
 (2008)
  Total
55,800
Time zoneUTC+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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. Statoids
  2. 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.