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	The Dmanisi Site
		Human occupation at Dmanisi is correlated to the terminal part of the (magnetically normal) Olduvai Subchron and immediately overlying (magnetically reversed) horizons of the Matuyama Chron, and is ~1.75 million years in age.
		The evidence suggests that much of the Dmanisi fauna was buried rapidly after death, in many cases with ligaments still attached, and that the bones were buried very gently, with minimal transport.
		The Dmanisi skulls are small for erectus and rounded instead of angled at the back, traits reminiscent of an earlier species, Homo habilis, or 'handy man', which appeared in Africa before two million years ago.
	donsmaps.com /dmanisi.html (2722 words)

	Dmanisi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dmanisi is a site in eastern (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia approximately 85 km southwest of (The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river) Tbilisi in the Mashavera River Valley.
		The excavations of the ruins of Dmanisi were begun in 1936 and continued in the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s.
		Since that year Georgian scientists have been excavating the pleistocene deposits at Dmanisi and, in 1991 they were joined by (A person of German nationality) German archeologists from Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dm/dmanisi.htm (213 words)

	The History of Man is being rewritten in Georgia, Dmanisi - CAUCAZ.COM
		Carried out since 1936 by archaeologists uncovering the remains of a thousand years castle, Dmanisi aroused the interest of the paleontologic community in 1983 with the discovery of a Pleistocene rhinoceros tooth.
		Intially the hominid remains from Dmanisi were dated to 1.6 million years, and thus were assigned to Homo Erectus.
		Dmanisi forced a rethink about the oldest humans who spread from Africa toward the doors of Europe : they were neither tall, nor built for walking, and even less gifted with a brain big enough to conquer this new world.
	www.caucaz.com /home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=129 (1240 words)

	Eco-Agrotourism in South Caucasus
		Sataplia is located in 9 km to the north-west of Kutaisi in a reserved zone, where on a 354 hectare area there are well-preserved natural floristic complex, rich in plantations of Colkhetian box-trees and chestnut.
		In Dmanisi, 60-km to the south of Tbilisi on the territory of a medieval town there were found two skulls of human beings dated 1.7 million years.
		Finding of the first European in Dmanisi gives evidence that Georgia was located on a crossroads of migration routes and a man from Africa got to Europe exactly via Georgia.
	www.eatsc.com /georg/natural_monuments.html (165 words)

	New fossil discovery shows earlier human migration out of Africa
		The case for the Dmanisi find being older than the Java hominid is bolstered by the physical appearance of the remains, which resemble that of an earlier human ancestor called Homo ergaster, a somewhat more primitive and smaller-brained precursor of Homo erectus.
		However the cranial capacity (brain size) of the two Dmanisi skulls, at 780 and 650 cubic centimeters at most, would place them at the low end of the Homo erectus range, suggesting that they are of an older date than the Java Hominid, regardless of species classification.
		Of even greater significance, however, is the apparent primitiveness of the Dmanisi humans' toolkit.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/may2000/foss-m29.shtml (708 words)

	Fossil Hominids: Skull D2700
		The discovery of the Dmanisi skulls, particularly D2700, raises the possibility, suggested by Vekua and his colleagues, that the Dmanisi hominids might have evolved from habilis-like ancestors that had already left Africa.
		Now, however, in the Dmanisi fossils, we have a group of three closely related skulls which, in both brain size and physical characteristics, nicely straddle that line and resemble the fossils on either side of it.
		The first creationist response to the Dmanisi fossils was made in the Institute for Creation Research's radio show on November 23, 2002.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/d2700.html (1595 words)

	Georgian Skull @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This 1.75-million-year-old pioneer, found last year beneath the ruins of a medieval town called Dmanisi in the republic of Georgia, had a tiny brain—not nearly the size scientists thought our ancestors needed to migrate into a new land.
		The Dmanisi team has found parts of as many as six individuals in the same layers of rock.
		The six noticeably different individuals found in the same layers of rock at Dmanisi suggest that they may be from the same species.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0208/feature1/index.html (721 words)

	Dmanisi Homo erectus (ergaster) Skull Bone Clones BH-028
		Dmanisi Homo erectus (ergaster) Skull Bone Clones BH-028
		As reported in the July, 2002 issue of Science, the Dmanisi skull has a number of similarities to early H. erectus: an exceptionally small cranium, with a rounded occiput with its face much like KNM-ER 1813.
		The presence at Dmanisi of individuals like D2700 calls into question the view that only hominids with brains equivalent in size to those of mid-Pleistocene H. erectus were able to migrate from Africa northward through the Lavantine corridor into Asia.
	www.boneclones.com /BH-028.htm (421 words)

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