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Nature 449, xiii (20 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/7160xiiia; Published online 19 September 2007

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Making the paper: David Lordkipanidze

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Georgian site yields more about Eurasia's first human inhabitants.

On finishing his doctorate in Russia in 1991, David Lordkipanidze opted to return home to Georgia, a country facing political and economic uncertainty in the wake of declaring independence from the dissolved Soviet Union. There, the palaeoanthropologist, who is now director of the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi, started work at an archaeological site beneath the medieval city of Dmanisi in southeastern Georgia, where crude stone tools and bones from prehistoric animals such as sabre-toothed tigers had been found.