A team of scientists working in Georgia has unearthed the remains of four human-like creatures dating to 1.8 million years ago.
In the journal Nature, the researchers outline details of the partial skeletons uncovered in a Medieval town.

The bones reveal a mixture of primitive and advanced features, team leader David Lordkipanidze explained.

These early hominids may have been among the first to leave Africa to colonise the rest of the world.

Discovered in the early 1990s, the Dmanisi site has proved a rich source of remains and artefacts from the dawn of the Pleistocene Epoch.

Studying the various skulls and jaws has given scientists important information about the early species that lived here.

But, until now, they had little information about the rest of the skeleton.

Ancient pioneers

The remains uncovered at the town of Dmanisi consist of the partial skeleton of an adolescent individual associated with a skull, and the "post-cranial" remains of three adults.


The upper limbs are relatively primitive
The specimens are among the oldest hominids to be found outside Africa.

In many respects, the well-preserved fossils resemble Homo erectus, a species from the genus Homo that first appeared in Africa some two million years ago and quickly spread throughout Europe and much of Asia. bbc

It just proves there are so many undiscovered things that might actually change what we now call proven history! Great artical, and very exciting!

I know, the more they find, the more that they question. It is very exciting. It almost makes me want to live for hundreds of years just so that I can find out all that is possible to find out about our history. There is so much information I want to know, but I fear it will not be discovered before I am either dead or too senile to understand.

Wouldn,t that just suck? They figure it all out, get all the pieces of the puzzle and we,re dead or too senile to understand it! But that sounds like the kind of luck i,d find!

I know, I guess I will have to haunt some archeologist so that I can find out things even when I no longer have this body. At least that would put a fire under somebody's butt to find out more!

That would be fun! Or we might send them running and screaming the heck outta there never to return! Either way we would learn something or have plenty of fun freaking them out!

LOL, I know a few people that I would have fun freaking out like that!

amazing! humans living among dinasours! well not humans or dinasours but you get what I mean!

Eh?