KEY PUBLICATIONS

Landmark publications of the Dmanisi site.

Comparative analysis of dentognathic pathologies in the Dmanisi mandibles February 29, 2016
A. Margvelashvili et. al. published a paper Comparative analysis of dentognathic pathologies in the Dmanisi mandibles in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, saying that dentognathic pathologies of Dmanisi hominins are large...

Response to Comment on “A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo” May 14, 2014
C.P.E. Zollikofer et. al. published a comment Response to Comment on "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo" in Science, saying that the morphological observations m...

A complete skull 5 from Dmanisi October 18, 2013
D. Lordkipanidze et. al. published a paper A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo in Science, saying that it is the only complete fossil Homo skull of the early Pleistoce...

Tooth wear in Dmanisi hominins October 07, 2013
Margvelashvili et. al. published a paper Tooth wear and dentoalveolar remodeling are key factors of morphological variation in the Dmanisi mandibles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americ...

Hominin occupations at the Dmanisi site May 01, 2011
Mgeladze et. al. published a paper Hominin occupations at the Dmanisi site, Georgia, Southern Caucasus: Raw materials and technical behaviours of Europe’s first hominins in Journal of Human Evolution, saying that rocks for stone-tool manufactur...

Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi April 28, 2011
Ferring et. al. published a paper Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), saying that southern Caucasus was occupied re...

Dmanisi locomotion June 01, 2010
Ponzer et. al. published a paper Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins in Journal of Human Evolution,saying that Dmanisi hind limb was functionally similar to modern humans and that inclusion of meat in the diet could have b...

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Dmanisi site April 01, 2010
Messager et. al. published 2 papers, one in Quaternary International: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Dmanisi site (Georgia) based on palaeobotanical data; and other in Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology: Palaeoecological inplicat...

Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia September 20, 2007
Lordkipanidze et. al. published a paper Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia, in Nature, saying that exceptionally well-preserved postcranial material from Dmanisi belonging to 3 different individua...

The earliest toothless hominin skull April 07, 2005
D. Lordkipanidze et. al. published a paper The earliest toothless hominin skull in Nature, saying that 1.77 year old Dmanisi hominin was nearly completely toothless and represents the earliest case of chewing impai...

Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi May 12, 2000
Gabunia et. al. published a paper Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age in Science, saying that the new fossils, two hominin crania, uncoverd in...

A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi February 09, 1995
Gabunia & Vekua published a paper A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi, East Georgia, Caucasus in Nature, saying that the excavation season 1991 unearthed a well preserved early human mandible aged between 1.8 and 1.6 milli...