Dmanisi fossils

Steve tipped me off about the following excerpt from a recent post by Todd Wood:

Let's think carefully about these claims. According to Thomas, there are anatomical reasons to conclude that Skull 5 is an ape. But in my own baraminological analysis of very similar skulls with similar anatomical traits, I found evidence that they are human. To me, Dmanisi illustrates everything I've been saying about the human baramin: the human family is highly variable, even to the point of producing humans that look ape-like in some of their characteristics. Even more exciting is that these Dmanisi fossils are basically from the same locality, making it very likely that they're all one highly variable population. That was the point of the original article, which I summarized previously. In an unpublished email to a reader, I excitedly pointed out that these are some of the earliest human fossils in the fossil record, and they're right there near the mountains of Ararat. Amazing!

I asked Dr. Wood if he might provide further info. He kindly replied. Here's his helpful response:

H. erectus fossils are conventionally dated to about 2 million years ago, making them stratigraphically the first human fossils we encounter in the post-Flood sediments.

Then you have their geographic location right there about as close to Ararat as you can get. It's absolutely remarkable that the earliest human fossils are close to Ararat. You can find out a bit more about the Dmanisi finds at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus_georgicus#Homo_erectus_georgicus