PREHISTORY
Evidence of the early human occupation of Algeria
is demonstrated by the discovery of 1.8 million year old Oldowan stone
tools found at Ain Hanech in 1992. In 1954
fossilised Homo erectus bones were discovered by C. Arambourg at
Ternefine that are 700,000 years old. Neolithic civilization
(marked by animal domestication and subsistence
agriculture) developed in the Saharan and Mediterranean Maghrib
between 6000 and 2000 BC. This type of economy, richly depicted in the Tassili
n'Ajjer cave
paintings in southeastern Algeria, predominated in the
Maghrib until the classical period. The amalgam of peoples of North Africa
coalesced eventually into a distinct native population, the Berbers lacked a
written language and hence tended to be overlooked or marginalized in
historical accounts.
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