Dmanisi (Georgia) – Site of Discovery of the Oldest Hominid in Eurasia
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By the end of September 1991 sensational news spread all over the scientific world: the mandible of the oldest man in Eurasia, whose age is possibly more than 1.5 million years, was found in Dmanisi, Georgia. Some researchers considered the scanty information from Georgia to be a newspaper gossip; some became seriously interested, but expressed doubts about the archaism and geological age of the early Dmanisi man. In what follows we try to shed light on the real history of these sensational finds. © 2010 Bull. Georg. Natl. Acad. Sci.
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