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Within 5,000—10,000 years, without much need for adaptation, they had worked their way around India and across the land bridges that then linked Asia with a short sea crossing to Australia.
J M Ledgard, Exodus, Intelligent Life, Summer 2009
There is nothing in Wadi Slooh, nothing except for one pool of water, regal goats so purebred they are worth RO400 each, and — huddled in the shade of goatskins, plastic sheets and dried thorn bushes — a group of unbelievably beautiful women.
Slooh itself is a place that no one outside of it has heard of. And why would they? It is a three-kilometre tributary to Wadi Amdah, and no one has heard of that either. You will get to Amdah from Majamma, an unknown settlement of one extended family, which has been connected to the outside world for the first time by a paved road that ends at its doorstep, a road that trickles out of Madinat al Nahda (that a few people know of), the last bit of extension of the Amerat area, before wadis and mountains take over.