Tighennif

Commune and town in Mascara Province, Algeria

Tighennif is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.^[1]

Personalities

• 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]
• Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighennif.
• Henri Akoka French-Algerian clarinetist.

References

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.