The 1.8m-year-old tooth found near Orozmani, Georgia.Photograph: David Chkhikvishvili/Reuters
Posted on 09/13/2022 8:37:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Student’s find provides new evidence region may be one of first places early humans settled outside Africa.
Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8m-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human that they say cements the region as the home of one of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in Europe, and possibly anywhere outside Africa.
The tooth was discovered near the village of Orozmani, which lies about 60 miles south-west of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and is near Dmanisi, where human skulls dated to 1.8m years old were found in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The Dmanisi finds were the oldest such discovery anywhere in the world outside Africa, and changed scientists’ understanding of early human evolution and migration patterns.
The latest discovery at a site about 12 miles away away provides yet more evidence that the mountainous south Caucasus area was probably one of the first places early humans settled after migrating out of Africa, experts said...
Giorgi Bidzinashvili, the scientific leader of the dig team, said he thought the tooth belonged to a “cousin” of Zezva and Mzia, the names given to the people whose near-complete 1.8m-year-old fossilised skulls were found at Dmanisi...
The oldest Homo fossils anywhere in the world date to about 2.8m years ago – a partial jaw discovered in modern-day Ethiopia.
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The 1.8m-year-old tooth found near Orozmani, Georgia.Photograph: David Chkhikvishvili/Reuters
“Orozmani”.
I think that’s somewhere down there around Valdosta or Tifton.
Oh, the other Georgia...
Never-mind...
There you are sitting in Georgia eating peaches and you hit the pit and your tooth falls out and instead of getting you a dentist, some guy grabs your tooth and puts it in a little box like it’s an engagement ring.
There’s lots of lost teeth in Georgia.
Bad dental care is not just a Hallmark in Britain....
Piltdown man had a brother?
Or the Tooth Fairy had a hangover and didn’t make her/his rounds?
Too bad our teeth don’t last that long.
If that’s a #30 molar I could use that.
GMTA!.......................
😂
One of the Cleveland Indians I bet.
:^) The Guardians... they should have changed the name to Woke Buttwipes.
Boy....doesn't seem like 19 years ago.
Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
And the 1.8m year-old man the tooth came from credits his long life to 2 cups a day of high-grade moonshine and pickle juice.
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