This isn’t a new fossil find. The news of the Homo erectus fossils in Georgia has been circulating for many years. It’s interesting to find fossils like this in a place like Georgia, but if my readings are any indication, Georgia is drop-dead gorgeous place with a beautiful climate and awesome scenery, so it makes sense that our ancestors would move there and set up house. I would, too, if I didn’t have to worry about political instability in the region.
Georgia is also the region known in antiquity as Colchis...so these early hominids may have been in search of the Golden Fleece.
It is a gorgeous place. Climate, at least near the Black Sea, is moderate. At Batumi, on the Black Sea, there is a botanic garden with plants from all over the world. When I was there in 1999, they had sections devoted to Japan, Australia, the Himalayas, as well as others. One of the highlights of my tour.