Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: New Investigations Into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia

Authors

Eslem Ben Arous, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
Nabiha Aouadi, Institut National du Patrimoine
Lotfi Belhouchet, Institut National du Patrimoine
Héla Mekki, Institut National du Patrimoine
Kaïs Trabelsi, Institut National du Patrimoine
Mosbah Mabrouki, Laboratoire Economie, Territoire et Paysages Patrimoniaux
El Mabrouk Essid, Office National des Mines
Noômène Fehri, Laboratoire BiCADE, Université de la Manouba
Qingfeng Shao, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Nanjing Normal University
Christophe Falguères, Histoire Naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS-MNHN-UPVD
Vincent Lebreton, Histoire Naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS-MNHN-UPVD
Patrick Roberts, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Robert Patalano, Bryant UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

North Africa; Middle Pleistocene; Middle Stone Age; Acheulean; Mousterian; stratigraphy; transition

Publisher

Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd

Rights Management

© The Author(s), 2025.

Abstract

The Sidi Zin Archaeological Project aims to bridge understanding of the Acheulean–Middle Stone Age transition in northern Tunisia, a relatively understudied region in the context of hominin evolution. The Sidi Zin locality will provide chronological, palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological and cultural insights into Acheulean and Middle Stone Age occupations in Tunisia.