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That article presented no real evidence that the city was 15,000 years old. It's a date picked because of popular opinion, not hard evidence.

Again, I think 15,000 is out of the mainstream just now. From the evidence of a very sketchy article, the age of 15,000 for this Arabian settlement looks to me like some eccentric's W.A.G. (The first and last letters of that acronym are "wild" and "guess.")

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Arabian settlement

North-African Berber settlement.