Southern Caucasus Field Project

The Palaeobiomics field team in 2015 started a research initiative in order to enhance the understanding of the environmental evolution of the Southern Caucasus, especially Eastern Georgia, being a crucial cross-road of faunal and hominin dispersals between Africa, Asia and Europe.

project aims

The project is conducted in cooperation with National Museums of Georgia and the ROCEEH project and mainly focuses on palaeobiological field work in the Mio-Pleistocene of Eastern Georgia.

The time-span covers the appearance period of the first hominid in Eurasia and accordingly the study of this period is the matter of great importance in determining the picture of paleoecological and paleoclimate evolution.

The Caucasus represents one of the main passageways for animals and early hominids out of Africa into Eurasia. Therefore the study of the river Kura basin (Gare Kakheti) with long and continuous outcrops of Plio-Pleistocene period comprising continental and the shallow depositional environments has become the subject of our particular interest.

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Dr. Timothy G. Bromage

Hard Tissue Research Unit

Department of Biomaterials & Biomimetics

New York University College of Dentistry

345 East 24th Street

New York, NY 10010-4086

USA

Dr. Friedemann Schrenk

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

Sektion Paläoanthropologie

Senckenberganlage 25

60325 Frankfurt

Deutschland

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The Palaeobiomics field team in 2015 started a research initiative in order to enhance the understanding of the environmental evolution of the Southern Caucasus, especially Eastern Georgia, being a crucial cross-road of faunal and hominin dispersals between Africa, Asia and Europe.

The project is conducted in cooperation with National Museums of Georgia and the ROCEEH project and mainly focuses on palaeobiological field work in the Mio-Pleistocene of Eastern Georgia.

The time-span covers the appearance period of the first hominid in Eurasia and accordingly the study of this period is the matter of great importance in determining the picture of paleoecological and paleoclimate evolution.

The Caucasus represents one of the main passageways for animals and early hominids out of Africa into Eurasia. Therefore the study of the river Kura basin (Gare Kakheti) with long and continuous outcrops of Plio-Pleistocene period comprising continental and the shallow depositional environments has become the subject of our particular interest.

The Palaeobiomics field team in 2015 started a research initiative in order to enhance the understanding of the environmental evolution of the Southern Caucasus, especially Eastern Georgia, being a crucial cross-road of faunal and hominin dispersals between Africa, Asia and Europe.

The project is conducted in cooperation with National Museums of Georgia and the ROCEEH project and mainly focuses on palaeobiological field work in the Mio-Pleistocene of Eastern Georgia. The Caucasus represents one of the main passageways for animals and early hominids out of Africa into Eurasia. Therefore the study of the river Kura basin (Gare Kakheti) with long and continuous outcrops of Plio-Pleistocene period comprising continental and the shallow depositional environments has become the subject of our particular interest.

The time-span covers the appearance period of the first hominid in Eurasia and accordingly the study of this period is the matter of great importance in determining the picture of paleoecological and paleoclimate evolution.