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ID: 7032006
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032006

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Dimanisi (deserted settlement)  Dimanisi (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 31 22 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.5227  decimal degrees
Long: 044 21 12 E  degrees minutes   Long: 44.3533  decimal degrees

Note: Located east of the Black Sea, south of the Caucasus Mountains, and southwest of Tbilisi on a promontory isolated by steep cliffs and water on three sides. Site of 1.75 million year old hominin skulls; may have been one of the first human ancestors to leave Africa. Most recently was a medieval village; the foundations of buildings remain.

Names:
Dimanisi (preferred,C,V,LC)  ............ name of medieval town on the site

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossija (nation)  ........  Rossija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Krasnodarskiy Kray (kray)  ............  Krasnodarskiy Kray (kray) (P)
Hierarchy of Dimanisi (deserted settlement)  ................  Dimanisi (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
inhabited place (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Dimanisi..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Britannica Book of the Year 2003, Physical Anthropology, accessed 12 July 2006
.................  National Geographic Magazine [online] (2000-) accessed 12 July 2006
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Britannica Book of the Year 2003, Physical Anthropology, accessed 12 July 2006
..................  National Geographic Magazine [online] (2000-) accessed 12 July 2006
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Book of the Year 2003, accessed 12 July 2006

 

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