Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8 million-year-old tooth belonging to an early human, which they say cements the region as the home of one of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in Europe, possibly anywhere outside Africa.
The tooth was discovered near the village of Orozmani, around 62 miles (100 km) southwest of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, near Dmanisi, where human skulls dated to 1.8 million 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 one that changed scientists’ understanding of early human evolution and migration patterns….