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  • Dmanisi Archaeological Site

  • Dmanisi Archaeological Site

    Dmanisi is an archaeological site located in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia. The site is dated to 1.8 million years ago and 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.
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Dmanisi Archaeological Site
    by Larry V. Dumlao, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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    Dmanisi Archaeological Site

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2007

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Georgia

    Kvemo Kartli

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    Paleolithic Age

    Paleolithic

    Mixed

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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