Rewriting History: New Discovery Reveals Hominins Left Africa 200,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

From SciTechDaily

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, predating the Dmanisi site in Georgia.

Anthropologists continue to debate when early hominins—ancestors closely related to modern humans—first migrated out of Africa and began their gradual spread across the globe. While the widely accepted view has been that hominins reached Eurasia at least 1.8 million years ago, some fragmentary evidence has suggested an even earlier presence. Now, new findings from an international team of researchers push that timeline back to nearly 2 million years ago.