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1.8Myears agoc. 1.8 million years ago · Dmanisi, Kvemo Kartli

Dmanisi: early humans outside Africa

The excavation pits and shelters at the Dmanisi archaeological site in Georgia
Photo: Georgian National Museum. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Under a ruined medieval town in southern Georgia, excavations since 1991 have found skulls and bones of early humans dated to about 1.8 million years ago, with their stone tools and the animals they lived among. The five Dmanisi skulls are among the oldest securely dated human fossils outside Africa, and they reopened debate on when and how our ancestors first left it.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Dmanisi Museum-ReserveSheltered excavation pits beside the ruins of a medieval town.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Georgian National Museum, TbilisiThe Dmanisi skulls and finds in the main archaeology gallery.Map ↗

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