Researchers discovered a jaw and teeth fragment at the Archaeological Site of Orozmani, in the Republic of Georgia
A jaw of Man alert About 1.8 million years old, discovered in the Republic of Georgia, it may be proof of one of the first human groups to live outside Africa.
The discovery, last week by the Georgia National Agency for the preservation of cultural heritage, sheds new lights on evolution of our genre, homo.
In 2022, in the excavations at the site of Orozmanisouth of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, archaeologists discovered stone tools near old animals bones, as well as a tooth H. erectus. This time found a jaw.
O H. erectus It developed about 2 million years ago in Africa. It was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and explored parts of Europe, Asia and Oceania. The oldest fossil test of this trip comes from the Site of Dmanisi, which is only 19 km from Orozmani.
The excavations made in DmanentIn the same region, in the last three decades revealed more than 100 fossil bones, including five skulls. These skeletons showed that the first hominids leaving Africa were significantly lower and had smaller brains than the Homo sapiens.
DManisi skeletons was initially attributed the name of species Homo georgicusbut currently the first individuals of H. erectus Known in Eurasia.
So far, Orozmani fossils, which include only one tooth and a partial jaw, are not as numerous as Dmanisi’s.
Speaking to Live Science, investigators report that the discovery of fossils in Orozmani suggests that Dmanisi was not a unique place. Several groups primitive humans may have been established in Caucasus Shortly after they leave Africa.
“Perhaps we are seeing that this movement for Georgia was not an isolated incident, but perhaps there was a broader distribution of Man alert In this period of time, ”he told the same magazine, Karen baabBiological Anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, who was not involved in the investigation.
