[ASA Vet]

80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?

[rightofrush]

80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?

...for that still believe in their college western civ. text books.

[Ichneumon]

80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?

According to...?

[SunkenCiv]

"80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?" -- ASA Vet

Since it's from may 2004, I'm not going to ping ASA Vet, but yeah, in the context mentioned in the article, 80,000 makes sense some of the time, but has nothing to do with Ebla and Mari, as the quote from the excavator seems to imply.