Tabelbala

تبلبالة ⵜⴰⴱⴻⵍⴱⴰⵍⵜ Tabelbala
Coordinates	29 ° 24 ′  N , 3 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 29 ° 24 ′  N , 3 ° 15 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Algeria
province	Béni Abbès
height	518 m
surface	60,560 km²
Residents	5248 (2009)
density	0.1  Ew. / km²

Tabelbala ( Arabic تبلبالة, DMG Tabalbāla , tamazight ⵜⴰⴱⴻⵍⴱⴰⵍⵜ) is a municipality in the province of Béni Abbès and is an oasis between Bechar and Tindouf in southwest Algeria . It essentially consists of two Ksars , Ksar Sidi Zekri and Ksar Cheraïa, as well as the village of Sidi Makhlouf and a younger village from the colonial era, which is simply called "Le Village". Around 5000 people live in Tabelbala; they speak Korandje .

The site is also an important site for tools from the early Paleolithic , especially for cleavers , i.e. rectangular artifacts, usually two-sided, with a sharp, wide edge at one end. The Tabelbala-Tachenghit site is associated with an unusually early technique known as “Proto- Levallois ” for the production of cleavers from a prepared core .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Francine Dominique Champault: Une oasis du Sahara Occidental North: Tabelbala. Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1969.
2. ↑ Illustration of a cleaver from Tabelbala-Tachenghit
3. ↑ Mohammed Sahnouni, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers: The African Acheulean: an archaeological summary , in: Peter Mitchell, Paul Lane (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of African Archeology , Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 289–305, here : P. 314.