The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus. Described in a publication in October 2013, it is estimated to be about 1.8 million years old and is the most complete skull of a Pleistocene Homo species,[1][2] and the first complete adult hominin skull of that degree of antiquity.[3][4] According to researchers, the discovery "provides the first evidence that early Homo comprised adult individuals with small brains but body mass, stature and limb proportions reaching the lower range limit of modern variation."[3]
The skull has been the cause of a paleontological controversy that is still ongoing as of 2017: many hominin fossils thought to be from different species such as Homo rudolfensis or Homo habilis may not have been separate species at all. Rather, they may have been a single evolving lineage.[2]
^David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de Leòn, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer (18 October 2013). "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo". Science. 342 (6156): 326–331. Bibcode:2013Sci...342..326L. doi:10.1126/science.1238484. PMID 24136960. S2CID 20435482.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ abSkull suggests three early human species were one : Nature News & Comment
^ abWilford, John Noble (October 17, 2013). "Skull Fossil Suggests Simpler Human Lineage". The New York Times. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
^Watson, Traci (October 17, 2013). "Skull discovery sheds light on human species". USA Today. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
The Dmanisiskull, also known as Skull5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus. Described...
fossils and five famous well-preserved skulls, referred to as DmanisiSkulls 1–5. The taxonomic status of the Dmanisi hominins is somewhat unclear due to...
single lineage. Also known as Skull5, D4500 is the fifth skull to be discovered in Dmanisi. The area around the town of Dmanisi has been settled since the...
as Dmanisiskull 3, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia in 2001 and classified as early Homo erectus. It is an almost complete skull and...
in the expansion associated with the Neolithic Revolution. Dmanisiskull5, found in Dmanisi, Georgia, is among the earliest Homo erectus fossils, dated...
habilis but instead from a common ancestor. With the publication of Dmanisiskull5 in 2013, it has become less certain that Asian H. erectus is a descendant...
erectus skulls were discovered at an excavation site in Dmanisi, Georgia. Unearthed in 2005 and described in a publication in 2013, the Dmanisiskull5 is...
Rightmire, G. P.; Vekua, A.; Zollikofer, C. P. E. (2013). "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo". Science. 342...
Rightmire, G. P.; Vekua, A.; Zollikofer, C. P. E. (2013). "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo". Science. 342...
pebble tools with a few flakes struck off to create an edge were found in Dmanisi, Georgia, and in Spain at sites in the Guadix-Baza basin and near Atapuerca...
Rightmire GP, Vekua A, Zollikofer CP (October 2013). "A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo". Science. 342...
The Dmanisi historic site (Georgian: დმანისის ნაქალაქარი, romanized: dmanisis nakalakari, literally, "the ruined/former town of Dmanisi") is a historic...
Rightmire, G. P.; Vekua, A.; Zollikofer, C. P. E. (2013). "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo". Science. 342...
have spread out of Africa even earlier than H. ergaster. The skull D2700 (Dmanisiskull 3) in particular resembles H. habilis in the small volume of its...
opposed by cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman. Altamura Man Ceprano Man Dmanisi hominins Early European modern humans Homo antecessor Homo rhodesiensis...
well-maintain it. Skulls I and II Skull II Skull III Skulls IV and V Skulls V and VI Skulls VI and VII Skulls VIII and IX Skull X Skull XI Skull XII Maxillae...
feeble at best. In Dmanisi, Georgia, evidence also exists that Megantereon interacted with hominids from a Homo erectus skull. The skull, designated D2280...
Agusti, J., Ferring, R., Maisuradze, G., et al. (2002). A new skull of early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. Science, 297:85–9. Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie...
Abesalom; Zollikofer, Christoph P. E. (18 October 2013). "A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo". Science. 342...
oldest known human skeletal remains outside of Africa are from Dmanisi, Georgia (Dmanisiskull 4), and are dated to 1.8 Ma. These remains are classified as...
species than the one represented by the 1.8-million-year-old skull unearthed at Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. After this discovery, Dr Barzilai...
antecessor. Wikispecies has information related to Homo antecessor. Ceprano Man Dmanisi hominins Early European modern humans Happisburgh footprints Homo heidelbergensis...
later reclassified as Homo erectus. Conducting excavation at Dmanisi in Georgia, he found skulls of an early hominin thought to be a precursor of Homo erectus...
million years ago, with a number of bones of Mammuthus meridionalis from the Dmanisi site in Georgia having marks suggested to the result of butchery by archaic...
Africa are Riwat in Pakistan (~2 Ma?), Ubeidiya in the Levant (1.5 Ma) and Dmanisi in the Caucasus (1.81 ± 0.03 Ma, p=0.05). China shows evidence of...
thousand years ago. Fossil evidence to dated 1.8 million years ago from Dmanisi, Georgia in the southern Caucasus suggests that they were cooperative hunters...
In 2020, researchers named a new species C. borjgali that was found in Dmanisi, Georgia in a site dated 1.8—1.75 million years ago. This specimen did...
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