Archaeologists dig 500,000-year-old site in Georgia
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What was life like half a million years ago?
A team of archaeologists are preparing to answer that question when they unearth a 500,000-year-old dwelling, dating back to the Stone Age in eastern Georgia.
A group of the country’s top archaeologists will begin digging the site in Georgia’s Kakheti region next week.
Archaeologist Nika Tushabramishvili said this was an "exceptionally important” site which was unique for Caucasus region.
The expedition will examine the primitive people’s dwelling, which is believed to have served as a place where stone tools were made.
The dig is expected to last for a month in Ziari village in Gurjaani municipality in eastern Georgia, local authorities said.
Specialists estimated the site could be half a million years old.
Meanwhile the oldest discovery ever made in Georgia was of two human skeletons, which date back 1.8 million years.
The two remains were of Homo georgicus – an extinct species of hominine that lived between Homo habilis and Homo erectus. To date, these are the oldest human skeletons ever discovered in Europe.
An international team of archaeologists have unearthed an ancient living space dating back to the sixth millennium BC in Georgia’s southeast.
A team of archaeologists unearthed burial sites dating back to the 8-7th century BC in the Gantiadi village in the Dmanisi municipality in the country’s south.
The earliest European human fossils dating back 1.8 million years, which were found in Dmanisi, southern Georgia, will be exhibited in Israel at the Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory. The exhibition will be the first Georgia-Israel joint event.
Do you want to know what human beings looked like 1.8 million years ago? If yes, then you should go to a presentation of a hominin bust created by a famous American paleo-artist based on an ancient skull found in Dmanisi, southern Georgia.