Abstract
Abstract We report the initial results of a palaeomagnetic study from Dmanissi (Georgia), which has yielded a human mandible and evidence of a lithic industry associated with a Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene fauna. A preliminary combined palaeomagnetic–Ar/Ar study suggested an Olduvain age for the anthropological level, thus, becoming the oldest sign of human occupation in Europe. Our palaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic study reveals the presence of reverse magnetizations in the sediments that host the human remains and artifacts, thereby ruling out an Olduvain age for the site. An underlying basaltic lava shows intermediate polarities that, given the isotopic age of the rock (~1.8 Ma), can be interpreted as the Matuyama–Olduvain transition.
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