Georgian fossils 'indicate humans lived in Europe thousands of years earlier'
Humans may have lived outside Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than first thought, fossilised evidence suggests.
A skull found by scientists in Georgia has been dated back 1.8 million years - about 800,000 years before the first humans were thought to have left the region.
The skull was one of five remains of primitive humans found at the Dmanisi archaeological site, south-west of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the British Science Festival heard on Tuesday.
The fossils, two males and three females, are understood to be early Homo erectus, a forerunner of modern human.
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A skull found by scientists in Georgia has been dated back 1.8 million years - about 800,000 years before the first humans were thought to have left the region.
The skull was one of five remains of primitive humans found at the Dmanisi archaeological site, south-west of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the British Science Festival heard on Tuesday.
The fossils, two males and three females, are understood to be early Homo erectus, a forerunner of modern human.