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Research Interests

Paleoanthropology, Human Evolution, Palaeolithic Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Early Hominid Adaptation and Behavior, Lithic Technology, North African Prehistory, Plio-Pleistocene Stratigraphy.

Early Hominid Adaptation and Dispersal into North Africa: Investigations at the Plio-Pleistocene site of Ain Hanech, Northeastern Algeria. 

Selected Publications  

Meier, R. J., Sahnouni, M., Medig M., & Derradji A. (In Press). Human Skull from the Taza Locality, Jijel, Algeria. Anthropologischer Anzeiger.

Sahnouni M. (In Press). The North African Early Stone Age and the sites at Ain Hanech, Algeria. In (N. Toth & K. Schick, editors), The origins of human technology: studies into the Early Stone Age (Oldowan). Bloomington: CRAFT Press

Sahnouni, M., Hadjouis, D., Made, J. van der, Derradji, A., Canals, A., Medig, M., Belahrech, H., Harichane, Z., & Rabhi, M. (2002). Further research at the Oldowan site of Ain Hanech, northeastern Algeria. Journal of Human Evolution, 43, 925-937.

Sahnouni, M., Derradji, A., Hadjouis, D., Canals, A., Medig, M., Belahrech, H., Abdesselam, S., Harichane, Z., and Rabhi, M. (2002): El-Kherba: a Lower Pleistocene butchery site in Northeastern Algeria. Abstracts for the Paleoanthropology Society, Meetings, Journal of Human Evolution, 42 (3), A31.

Hadjouis D., Vignal J.N., Medig M., Sahnouni M. & Derradji A. (2000). Biodynamique cranio-faciale, palépathologie et reconstitution faciale d’un crâne ibéromaurusien (grotte de Taza, Jijel, Algérie). In Identité humaine en question: nouvelles problématiques et nouvelles technologies en Paléontologie humaine et en Paléoanthropologie biologique, (Andrieux Ph., Hadjouis D. & Dambricourt-Malassé A. Eds) Paris : Artcom, pp : 205-220.

Sahnouni, M. (1998). The Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb: Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Sahnouni M. & Heinzelin J. de (1998). The site of Ain Hanech revisited: New Investigations at this Lower Pleistocene site in Northern Algeria. Journal of Archaeological Sciences 25, 1083-1101.

Sahnouni, M., Schick, K., & Toth, N. (1997). An experimental investigation into the nature of faceted limestone "spheroids" in the Early Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 24, 701-713.

Sahnouni M. &, Heinzelin, J. d., Brown, F., and Saoudi, Y. (1996). Récentes recherches dans le gisement oldowayen d'Ain Hanech, Algérie. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 323, série II a, 639-644.

Sahnouni, M. (1996): Saharan rock art. In (T. Celenko, Eds) Egypt in Africa. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art & Indiana University Press, 28-30.