Homo georgicus

Homo georgicus is the name given in 2002 to the Dmanisi hominins, an Early Pleistocene population of early Homo known from the Dmanisi site in Georgia in the Southern Caucasus, with the massive jaw D2600 as its type specimen. The fossils and stone tools range from 1.85 to 1.77 million years old, the earliest well-dated hominin fossils in Eurasia, and include over a hundred postcranial fossils and five well-preserved skulls. The hominins were small, standing about 145 to 166 centimetres with brains of 545 to 775 cubic centimetres, and had essentially modern legs adapted to long-range walking but arms more like those of Australopithecus. They lived near an ancient lake shore surrounded by forests and grasslands and used Oldowan stone tools. The nomenclature is still debated, and the Dmanisi research team later favoured treating them as Homo erectus georgicus.