TBILISI (GEORGIA) (ITALPRESS) – The Italian Ambassador to Georgia Massimiliano D’Antuono visited Dmanisi, an open-air museum and one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, with testimonies of human settlements dating back to 1.8 million years ago. A note from the Italian Embassy in Tbilisi reports it.
The research in the area of the prehistoric site of Dmanisi is conducted by an international and multidisciplinary group coordinated by the National Museum of Georgia with the multiannual participation of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.
Ambassador Maximilian D’Antuono was hosted by the Director of the National Museum of Georgia David Lordkipanidze and Prof. Lorenzo Rook of the University of Florence, manager of the mission funded by MAECI and operating for years on the paleontological site of Dmanisi.
The site of Dmanisi, one of the milestones of modern paleoanthropology, has returned the evidence of a crucial moment of human evolution: the exit from Africa. In the 1990s last century, in the countryside around this village about 80 kilometers from the Georgian capital human remains and animals from 1.8 million years ago were discovered, and the findings of hominids are considered the oldest ever discovered outside the African continent.
The Italian research group is committed to studying the rich fossil fauna associated with human remains, in order to obtain genetic information of extraordinary interest and to reconstruct, with the greatest possible detail, the environment and ecosystem of which our ancient ancestors were part.
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