Original sentence: Georgia claims sovereignty over two regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are recognised as independent by four UN member states, but are considered by Georgia to be Russian-occupied.The territory of modern-day Georgia has been inhabited by Homo erectus since the Paleolithic
Edited sentence: Georgia claims sovereignty over two regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are not recognised by UN as independent except its four member states, and are considered by Georgia to be Russian-occupied.Humans have been living in Georgia for an extremely long time.The human remains discovered in Georgian town Dmanisi are 1.8 million years old.The site yields the earliest unequivocal evidence for presence of early humans outside the African continent