Atlanthropus - Atlanthropus (English spelling)

Japanese: アトラントロプス - あとらんとろぷす(英語表記)Atlanthropus
Atlanthropus - Atlanthropus (English spelling)

A hominid excavated from North Africa. Three mandibles and a piece of a skull were discovered in Ternifine, Algeria, between 1954 and 1955. It has a fairly robust morphology and resembles the Peking hominid, so the discoverer, C. Arambourg, named it Atlantropus mauritanicus after the Atlas Mountains that stretch to the south of the discovery site. From the animal bones found, it was determined to be from the Early Camassian Rainy Period and belong to the beginning of the middle Pleistocene (Pleistocene). It was also found with a large number of stone tools from the Early Ashurean period, including a primitive double-sided hand axe and a scraper. The Rabat man, discovered near Casablanca, Morocco in 1933, and the Casablanca man (Sidi Abdel-Rahman), discovered in 1955, are also thought to be of the same type.

[Shise Kahara]

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Japanese:

北アフリカ出土の原人。1954~1955年、アルジェリアのテルニフィーヌで3個の下顎骨(かがくこつ)と1片の頭頂骨が発見された。かなり頑丈な形態をしており、北京(ペキン)原人と通じるものがあるため、発見者のアランブールC. Arambourgは、発見地の南側に連なるアトラス山脈にちなんで、アトラントロプス・マウリタニクスと命名した。伴出した動物の骨から、前期カマシアン雨期のもので、更新世(洪積世)中期初頭に属すとみなされた。原始的な両面握斧(あくふ)、掻器(そうき)などアシュレアン前期の石器が多数随伴して発見された。なお、モロッコのカサブランカ付近で1933年に発見されたラバト人、1955年発見のカサブランカ人(シディ・アブデルラーマン)も同類とみられる。

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