Dmanisi
Dmanisi (Georgian: დმანისი, romanized: dmanisi, pronounced [dmanisi], Azerbaijani: Başkeçid) is a town and archaeological site in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera. The hominin site is dated to 1.8 million years ago. It was the earliest known evidence of hominins outside Africa before stone tools dated to 2.1 million years were discovered in 2018 in Shangchen, China.
Dmanisi
დმანისი | |
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Town | |
Election administration office | |
Dmanisi Location of Dmanisi in Georgia Dmanisi Dmanisi (Kvemo Kartli) | |
| Coordinates: 41°19′54″N 44°12′13″E | |
| Country | Georgia |
| Region | Kvemo Kartli |
| District | Dmanisi |
| Elevation | 1,250 m (4,100 ft) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 2,661 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgian Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 |
A series of skulls which had diverse physical traits, discovered at Dmanisi in the early 2010s, led to the hypothesis that many separate species in the genus Homo were in fact a single lineage. Also known as Skull 5, D4500 is the fifth skull to be discovered in Dmanisi.
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