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ID: 7032866
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032866
Record Type:
administrative
Aïn Hanech (prehistoric site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 55 48 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.9303
decimal degrees
Long: 000 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.3502
decimal degrees
Note:
Located near near Saïda. Named for a spring nearby. Site is noted for very early hominid occupation. Included are discoveries of 1.8 million-year-old Oldowan stone tools and fossilised Homo erectus bones.
Names:
Aïn Hanech
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
S
)
Aïn el-Hanech
(
C
,
V
)
Ain Hanech
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Algeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Saïda
(province) (
P
)
................
Aïn Hanech
(prehistoric site) (
P
)
Place Types:
prehistoric site (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
ancient site (
C
)
occupation site (
H
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
’Aïn el Hanech
.......... (spring)
..............................
(World, Africa, Algeria, Saïda) [7593900]
Sources and Contributors:
Aïn el-Hanech..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
In "North Africa: Early Humans and Stone Age society; accessed 27 July 2010
Aïn Hanech..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.......................
Canby, Archaeological Sites of Israel, Egypt, and North Africa (1990)
237-238
Ain Hanech..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Library of Congress Subject Headings (2002-)
98002970, accessed 27 July 2010
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Archaeological Sites of Israel, Egypt, and North Africa (1990)
237-238
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
In "North Africa: Early Humans and Stone Age society; accessed 27 July 2010
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