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...when a Homo erectus skull from Indonesia was dated to 1.8 million years B.P. (before the present). And while that discovery was disputed by some scholars, a find reported in last week's Science should end all doubt. Cranial bones from two H. erectus individuals, discovered in Dmanisi, in the Republic of Georgia, have been dated to at least 1.7 million years B.P. What's more, researchers unearthed at the site primitive stone implements resembling those found at H. erectus digs in Africa, proving that fancy tools weren't the trigger for the departure...
...erectus took. The study's authors think the species went east to Asia and gave rise to the Asian branch of H. erectus, perhaps then turned north and finally west back to Europe. The fossil record in Europe is especially spotty, with about a million years separating the Dmanisi finds and any other hominid remains...
Researchers expect to continue uncovering a wealth of bones in Europe and are encouraged by the treasures at Dmanisi. "Certainly if they [H. erectus] were out that early, they've got to be other places as well," says Susan Anton, a University of Florida anthropologist and co-author of the Science paper. "It's just a matter of finding them...