But the discovered tooth is apparently 1.8 million years old and belongs to early man, or, more specifically, to an early man. And why is this big deal? For historians - pre-historians? - this is further proof that the South Caucasus region was one of the earliest spots on Earth where early humans, Homo (note: this is not a pejorative), settled down after moving out of the African continent some 2 million year ago to roam the world.
