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Out of Africa

≈ 1.8 million years ago

Side view of the Dmanisi D2282 skull, a small, heavy-browed cranium with a projecting face, against a beige museum wall.

Early HumanityOut of Africa

Early humans leave Africa.

Early members of the human lineage spread beyond Africa into parts of Eurasia, beginning a much wider geographic history for our family.

Skulls, jaws and stone tools from Dmanisi in Georgia, about 1.8 million years old, are the oldest well-dated human fossils outside Africa.

1.8 million years ago, placed on the scale of its era on a line leading toward now.

Era
Early Humanity
Period
≈ 1.8 million years ago
Edition
1/1
Status
Not Released
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