Not elder law: clues to human origins
A team of scientists working in Georgia has unearthed the remains of four human-like creatures dating to 1.8 million years ago. In the journal Nature, the researchers outline details of the partial skeletons uncovered in a Medieval town.The bones reveal a mixture of primitive and advanced features, team leader David Lordkipanidze explained.These early hominids may have been among the first to leave Africa to colonise the rest of the world.Discovered in the early 1990s, the Dmanisi site hasproved a rich source of remains and artefacts from the dawn of thePleistocene period.Studying the various skulls and jaws has given scientists important information about the early species that lived here. But, until now, they had little information about the rest of the skeleton.