Discovered fossilized bones migrating from Africa to Europe

Some fossil bones of human-like animals, about 1.8 million years old, have been found by scientists in the Republic of Georgia. This is the oldest fossil bone found outside Africa.

Archaeological team leader David Lordkipanidze said that the number of bones features a blend of primitive and evolutionary. This nearly identical animal may have moved from Africa to other parts of the world. Through some jaws and skulls, one can learn many important information about animals at that time. However, scientists have not found any complete skeleton.

Originally, this fossil bone may be a species with the scientific name Homo erectus , a growing branch of Homo that appeared about 2 million years ago in Africa. Then move to Europe and Asia. The remarkable feature of this animal is that the spine and lower limb of this species are structurally adapted to long distance travel, in which the foot is particularly developed. The size of this species depends on male or female.

However, the small brain and upper limbs were less developed, similar to the appearance of Australopithecus first in Africa 4 million years ago.

In the 90s of the last century, a number of animal-like objects were also found at archaeological sites in Dmanisi (a town in CH Georgia).

Fossils found in Georgia CH (Photo: BBC)

The upper limbs are nearly non-evolutionary (Photo: BBC)

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