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David O. Lordkipanidze (
Georgian: დავით ლორთქიფანიძე) (born
5 August 1963, in
Tbilisi) is a notable
Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Doctor of Sciences (
2001), Director General of the
Georgian National Museum (GNM) (since
2004), Professor of the
Tbilisi State University (TSU), Foreign Member of the
United States National Academy of Sciences (
2007), a Fellow of the
World Academy of Art and Science (
U.S.,
2007).
Lordkipanidze graduated from the Faculty of Geography of the
Tbilisi State University (
1985) and received a Ph.D. degree in
1992. In
1999-
2000 he was a Visiting Professor of the National Historical Museum of
Paris. He is author of about 100 scientific publications (among them monographs) in the fields of anthropology, paleoecology, hominid evolution and archaeology, organizer of many important scientific and cultural events.
Since
2001 Lordkipanidze is a member of the Permanent Council of U.I.S.S.P., since
2002 - member of the
European Cultural Parliament. He has received many awards, including the Georgia's Order of Honour (
2000), Award of the Prince of
Monaco (
2001),
French Order of "Palmes Academiques" (
2002), French Order of Honour (
2006) and the
Rolex Awards for Enterprise (
2004).
He work at the site of
Dmanisi, he found skulls of an early form thought to be a precursor of
Homo erectus, provisionally named
Homo georgicus. 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 between
Homo habilis and
Homo erectus, and have been dated at 1.8 million years before the present.
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