Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Dmanisi

Index Dmanisi

Dmanisi (tr) is a town and archaeological site in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera. [1]

40 relations: Arabs, Archaeological site, Australopithecus, Bronze Age, Confidence interval, David IV of Georgia, David Lordkipanidze, Demetrius I of Georgia, Dmanisi skull 5, Eastern Orthodox Church, Emirate of Tbilisi, France, Georgia (country), Germany, Hominini, Homo, Homo erectus, House of Orbeliani, Human evolution, Kvemo Kartli, Lineage (evolution), List of human evolution fossils, List of sovereign states, Neanderthal, Pleistocene, Prehistoric Georgia, Region, Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz), Seljuq dynasty, Spain, Stephanorhinus, TalkOrigins Archive, Tbilisi, The Independent, Timur, Town, Turco-Mongol tradition, Turkmen incursions into Georgia, United States, Year.

Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

New!!: Dmanisi and Arabs · See more »

Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

New!!: Dmanisi and Archaeological site · See more »

Australopithecus

Australopithecus (informal australopithecine or australopith, although the term australopithecine has a broader meaning as a member of the subtribe Australopithecina which includes this genus as well as Paranthropus, Kenyanthropus, Ardipithecus, and Praeanthropus) is an extinct genus of hominins.

New!!: Dmanisi and Australopithecus · See more »

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

New!!: Dmanisi and Bronze Age · See more »

Confidence interval

In statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is a type of interval estimate, computed from the statistics of the observed data, that might contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.

New!!: Dmanisi and Confidence interval · See more »

David IV of Georgia

David IV, also known as David the Builder (დავით აღმაშენებელი) (1073– 24 January 1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125.

New!!: Dmanisi and David IV of Georgia · See more »

David Lordkipanidze

David Otaris dze Lordkipanidze (Georgian: დავით ლორთქიფანიძე) (born 5 August 1964, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor (2004), Dr.Sc.

New!!: Dmanisi and David Lordkipanidze · See more »

Demetrius I of Georgia

Demetrius I (დემეტრე I) (1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156.

New!!: Dmanisi and Demetrius I of Georgia · See more »

Dmanisi skull 5

The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five Homo erectus skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia.

New!!: Dmanisi and Dmanisi skull 5 · See more »

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

New!!: Dmanisi and Eastern Orthodox Church · See more »

Emirate of Tbilisi

The Emirs of Tbilisi (თბილისის საამირო, إمارة تفليسي) ruled over the parts of today’s eastern Georgia from their base in the city of Tbilisi, from 736 to 1080 (nominally to 1122).

New!!: Dmanisi and Emirate of Tbilisi · See more »

France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

New!!: Dmanisi and France · See more »

Georgia (country)

Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

New!!: Dmanisi and Georgia (country) · See more »

Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

New!!: Dmanisi and Germany · See more »

Hominini

The Hominini, or hominins, form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae ("hominines").

New!!: Dmanisi and Hominini · See more »

Homo

Homo (Latin homō "human being") is the genus that encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans), plus several extinct species classified as either ancestral to or closely related to modern humans (depending on a species), most notably Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

New!!: Dmanisi and Homo · See more »

Homo erectus

Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch.

New!!: Dmanisi and Homo erectus · See more »

House of Orbeliani

The Orbeliani (ორბელიანი) was a Georgian noble family (tavadi), which branched off the Baratashvili family in the 17th century and later produced several lines variously called Orbeliani, Orbelishvili (ორბელიშვილი), Qaplanishvili (ყაფლანიშვილი), and Jambakur(ian)-Orbeliani (ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი).

New!!: Dmanisi and House of Orbeliani · See more »

Human evolution

Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.

New!!: Dmanisi and Human evolution · See more »

Kvemo Kartli

Kvemo Kartli (Lower Kartli, ქვემო ქართლი) is a historic province and current administrative region (Mkhare) in southeastern Georgia.

New!!: Dmanisi and Kvemo Kartli · See more »

Lineage (evolution)

An evolutionary lineage is a temporal series of organisms, populations, cells, or genes connected by a continuous line of descent from ancestor to descendent.

New!!: Dmanisi and Lineage (evolution) · See more »

List of human evolution fossils

The following tables give a brief overview of several notable hominin fossil finds relating to human evolution beginning with the formation of the Hominini tribe in the late Miocene (roughly 6 million years ago).

New!!: Dmanisi and List of human evolution fossils · See more »

List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

New!!: Dmanisi and List of sovereign states · See more »

Neanderthal

Neanderthals (also; also Neanderthal Man, taxonomically Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo, who lived in Eurasia during at least 430,000 to 38,000 years ago.

New!!: Dmanisi and Neanderthal · See more »

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

New!!: Dmanisi and Pleistocene · See more »

Prehistoric Georgia

The prehistory of Georgia is the period between the first human habitation of the territory of modern-day nation of Georgia and the time when Assyrian and Urartian, and more firmly, the Classical accounts, brought the proto-Georgian tribes into the scope of recorded history.

New!!: Dmanisi and Prehistoric Georgia · See more »

Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

New!!: Dmanisi and Region · See more »

Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz)

The Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM)) is an archaeological and historical research institution for pre-history and early history headquartered in Mainz.

New!!: Dmanisi and Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz) · See more »

Seljuq dynasty

The Seljuq dynasty, or Seljuqs (آل سلجوق Al-e Saljuq), was an Oghuz Turk Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became a Persianate society and contributed to the Turco-Persian tradition in the medieval West and Central Asia.

New!!: Dmanisi and Seljuq dynasty · See more »

Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

New!!: Dmanisi and Spain · See more »

Stephanorhinus

Stephanorhinus is an extinct genus of rhinoceros native to northern Eurasia that lived during the Lower to Early Late Pleistocene epoch.

New!!: Dmanisi and Stephanorhinus · See more »

TalkOrigins Archive

The TalkOrigins Archive is a website that presents mainstream science perspectives on the antievolution claims of young-earth, old-earth, and "intelligent design" creationists.

New!!: Dmanisi and TalkOrigins Archive · See more »

Tbilisi

Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some countries also still named by its pre-1936 international designation Tiflis, is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people.

New!!: Dmanisi and Tbilisi · See more »

The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

New!!: Dmanisi and The Independent · See more »

Timur

Timur (تیمور Temūr, Chagatai: Temür; 9 April 1336 – 18 February 1405), historically known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane (تيمور لنگ Temūr(-i) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror.

New!!: Dmanisi and Timur · See more »

Town

A town is a human settlement.

New!!: Dmanisi and Town · See more »

Turco-Mongol tradition

Turco-Mongol or the Turko-Mongol tradition was a cultural or ethnocultural synthesis that arose during the early 14th century, among the ruling elites of Mongol Empire successor states such as the Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde.

New!!: Dmanisi and Turco-Mongol tradition · See more »

Turkmen incursions into Georgia

After the devastating invasions by Timur and subsequent enfeeblement of the Kingdom of Georgia, it soon faced a new threat.

New!!: Dmanisi and Turkmen incursions into Georgia · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Dmanisi and United States · See more »

Year

A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.

New!!: Dmanisi and Year · See more »

Redirects here:

Dmanisi (paleoanthropology), Dmanisi Province, Ottoman Empire, Tumanis Province, Ottoman Empire.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmanisi

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »