This is called keeping a tooth. An incredible discovery has just been made in Georgia. While carrying out an excavation near the village of Orozmani, about a hundred kilometers from the capital Tbilisi, archaeologists discovered a tooth 1.8 million years old. They also got their hands on stone tools and animal remains, reports Slate according to information from Deutsche Welle.
This is the first discovery of Homo erectus remains in this area. In the nearby town of Dmanisi, human skulls from the same period had already been found in the 1990s and 2000s. Baptized Zezva and Mzia, these two fossilized skulls belong to a kind of cousin of the owner of the recently discovered tooth.
All of these remains belong to the first human ancestors to have left Africa to migrate. Furthermore, they represent the oldest human remains found outside the African continent. According to specialists, these individuals would therefore have passed through Georgia during their migration and would have settled there about 1.9 million years ago. Two other migrations would then have followed, without being as important as the first. The second would have been carried out by our direct ancestor: the Homo sapiens, who appeared 200,000 years ago in the east of the African continent.