2 November 2022
St Hugh’s Undergraduate finds 1.8m year old tooth of early human
Congratulations to third year St Hugh's student, Jack Peart (Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020) who found a 1.8m year old Homo erectus mandibular premolar during a dig at the site of Orozmani in Georgia during the summer - the oldest hominin remains found outside of Africa. The main significance of the find is that it is irrefutable evidence of the region being home to one of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in Europe, and possibly anywhere outside Africa.
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