David Lordkipanidze

David O. Lordkipanidze

David O. Lordkipanidze (Georgian: დავით ლორთქიფანიძე) (born 5 August 1963, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor, Dr.Sc., Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2009). He is famous for having discovered the hominin species, Homo georgicus. Conducting excavation at Dmanisi in Georgia, he found skulls of an early hominin thought to be a precursor of Homo erectus. Subsequently, four fossil skeletons were found, showing a species still with primitive features in its skull and upper body but with relatively advanced spines and lower limbs, providing greater mobility. They represent a stage soon after the transition from Homo habilis to Homo erectus, and have been dated at 1.8 million years before the present.^[1]

He has received many awards, including the Georgia's Order of Honour (2000), Award of the Prince of Monaco (2001), the French Order of "Palmes Academiques" (2002), the French Order of Honour (2006) and the Rolex Award for Enterprise (2004). He was appointed Director General of the Georgian National Museum (GNM) in 2004. In 2007 he became both a Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (U.S.).

See also

• List of Georgians

References

1. ^ Wilford, John Noble (19 September 2007). "New Fossils Offer Glimpse of Human Ancestors". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/science/19cnd-fossil.html. Retrieved 9 September 2009. 

External links

• Georgian National Museum (GNM)
• David Lordkipanidze: Biographical sketch.

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