A 1.8 million-year-old human tooth was found
Archaeologists in Georgia have found a tooth of 1.8 million years old, dating to early races of humans, and they say it strengthens the belief that the area was home to one of the oldest prehistoric human settlements in Europe, and possibly outside Africa in general.
The tooth was discovered near the village of Uruzmani, about 100 kilometers southwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, near Dmanisi, where 1.8 million-year-old human skulls were found, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Dmanisi's discoveries were the oldest of their kind anywhere in the world outside of Africa, and changed scientists' understanding of human evolution and early migration patterns.
Scientists view this discovery with a lot of interest as it provides new clues to the oldest known human settlements.
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