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Homo georgicus

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Also known as Homo erectus georgicus

hominid species or subspecies discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia

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Homo georgicus
taxon name
Homo georgicus
start time
1850000-00
end time
1750000-00
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Replica of Dmanisi Skull 3, the skull of an adolescent individual, discovered in 2001

The Dmanisi hominins, Dmanisi people, or Dmanisi man were a population of Early Pleistocene hominins whose fossils have been recovered at Dmanisi, Georgia. The fossils and stone tools recovered at Dmanisi range in age from 1.85 to 1.77 million years old, making the Dmanisi hominins the earliest well-dated hominin fossils in Eurasia and the best preserved fossils of early Homo from a single site so early in time. Though their precise classification is controversial and disputed, the Dmanisi fossils are highly significant within research on early hominin migrations out of Africa. The Dmanisi hominins are known from over a hundred postcranial fossils and five famous well-preserved skulls, referred to as Dmanisi Skulls 1–5.

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