Discovery from 1.9 million years ago reshapes human migration from Africa

New research at the 'Ubeidiya archaeological site in the Jordan Valley shows that early humans reached it at least 1.9 million years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Advanced dating methods revealed the site's age is comparable to the famous Dmanisi in Georgia, placing both among the oldest known human settlements outside Africa and forcing a revision of existing theories of human evolution.

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