Archaeologists Discover 1.8 Million-Year-Old Human Tooth In Georgia: Report
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The digging at Orozmani was started by Mr Kopaliani and his team in 2019. (Representational Photo)Archeologists have discovered a tooth in Georgia belonging to an early species of human believed to be 1.8 million years old. This discovery was made last week by a research student near a digging site at the village Orozmani, 100 kilometres southwest of capital Tbilisi. The tooth is one of the oldest signs of hominids discovered outside of Africa, according to a report in USA Today.The village Orozmani is close to Dmanisi, where human skulls with ages as ancient as 1.8 million years ago were discovered in the late 1990s and early 2000s, reported The Guardian.Giorgi Kopaliani, an archaeologist with the Georgian National Museum, was quoted as saying by USA Today, "He showed the tooth t...