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ID: 7032866
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032866

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Aïn Hanech (prehistoric site)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Saïda (province)  ............  Saïda (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Aïn Hanech (prehistoric site)  ................  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, Al-Jazā'ir, 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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