Early Human Tooth dating to 1.8 million years ago Discovered in Georgia
Fresh evidence that the Caucasus may have been one of the earliest sites that early humans settled outside of Africa.
A tooth from an ancient species of humans, likely Homo erectus, that dates back 1.8 million years has been found close to the Georgian village of Orozmani, which is located around 60 miles south-west of Tbilisi, the country's capital. This location is close to Dmanisi, where in the late 1990s and early 2000s, human skulls with an age of 1.8 million year…
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