[anymouse]

Interesting.

[SteveMcKing]

No respect for the dead!

[Undertow]

Hell, just dig a bit deeper and I'm sure you'll find the rest of Stalin's victims.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[Coyoteman]

I'd like a little more on the dating. Excavation of fossils on Aug. 6 and firm dating now leads to questions. It may be that the layers have already been dated, but the article didn't say. (Journalists!)

[taxesareforever]

It is just so awesome how a DNA check on an individual takes up to two weeks and yet saying how old a bone is takes, what, ten minutes to estimate 1.8 million years?

[DeeOhGee]

Jimmy?

[Fractal Trader]

GGG ping

[corkoman]

From the skull they could tell he was a Homo! How intolerant.

[Artemis Webb]

GGG Ping

[righttackle44]

I hope our local Arizona Republic newspaper gets the right Georgia this time.

Dear Editor:

It ain't the one with Atlanta!

And this is a newspaper that says it contributes serious editorial thought to the American dialogue.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fractal Trader and Artemis Webb for the pings. There may have been a topic about a similar find a few years ago (or perhaps this story is a recycled version of that event), but this looks pingworthy.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

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[SunkenCiv]

From over five years ago:

Fossil Signs of First Human Migration Are Found
by John Noble Wilford
May 12, 2000

In a discovery with profound implications for the study of early human history, scientists digging in the republic of Georgia have found 1.7-million-year-old fossil human skulls that show clear signs of African ancestry and so may represent the species that first migrated out of Africa... The international discovery team, led by Dr. Leo Gabunia of the Georgia National Academy of Sciences, concluded that the age and skeletal characteristics of the skulls linked them to the early human species Homo ergaster, who lived from 1.9 million to 1.4 million years ago and who some researchers think is the African version of Homo erectus. The specimens were said to bear less resemblance to the typical Asian Homo erectus... The earliest tools of the Acheulean style did not appear in Africa until 1.6 million years ago, and about 100,000 years later outside Africa, in Israel. By contrast, the discovery team reported, the tools found with the Georgian skulls resembled tools found in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania and dated at about 1.8 million years.

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