Philippines hosts year-long exhibition of ancient fossils found in Georgia
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Skulls of ancient Europeans, discovered at southern Georgia's Dmanisi archaeological site, are the highlight of a new series of exhibitions on human evolution that launched in the Philippines on Tuesday.
The exhibits, also including ancient animal fossils, were on display in the First Humans Out Of Africa: The Journey of Mankind exhibition at the Ateneo De Manila University's Leong Hall Auditorium.
[The] remains were found in the country of Georgia in the Caucasus along with those belonging to animals, many of them now extinct," said the preview of the exhibition.
The organisers noted the display would also include "hominid skulls, the skull of a sabre-tooth cat, the skull of an extinct wolf, Canis etruscus, and an elephant molar," along with stone tools.
Georgian National Museum Director General David Lordkipanidze handed over scientific casts of the Dmanisi skulls to organisers of the exhibition in October 2015. Photo by The Travelling Museum PH.
All exhibits from Dmanisi dated back to the historical period 1.8 million years ago.
The exhibition aimed to "illustrate the unfolding of the human story" starting with the historic phase when the first humans left the African continent two million years ago.
Scientific casts of the Dmanisi skulls were flown to the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon city from Georgia last autumn.
The items were handed over to the exhibition organisers by Director General of the Georgian National Museum and scientific head of the Dmanisi expedition David Lordkipanidze.
Lordkipanidze also launched the display at the Ateneo De Manila University with a lecture yesterday.
The exhibition will run until March 4, while the series will continue at five other venues in the Philippines for the rest of the year.
The exhibition First Humans Out Of Africa: The Journey of Mankind was organised by the Travelling Museum PH anof the Georgian National Museum, along with other organisations.
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