| Dmanisi site | |
|---|---|
| Native name Georgian: დმანისის ნაქალაქარი | |
 Ruins of medieval Dmanisi. | |
| Location | Dmanisi Municipality Kvemo Kartli, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 41°20′11″N 44°20′33″E / 41.336424°N 44.342581°E |
| Type | Historic, archaeological |
| Designated | 2007 |
  Location of Dmanisi site in Georgia | |
The Dmanisi historic site (Georgian: დმანისის ნაქალაქარი, romanized: dmanisis nakalakari, literally, "the ruined/former town of Dmanisi") is a historic and archaeological site in Georgia, located north of the village of Patara Dmanisi, Dmanisi Municipality, in south-central region of Kvemo Kartli, some 85 km (53 miles) southwest of Tbilisi, Georgia's capital.
Perched on a promontory at the confluence of the Mashavera and Pinezauri rivers, the site is an open-air museum, containing the early medieval Dmanisi Sioni cathedral and the ruins of one of the most important towns and commercial centres in medieval Georgia, with fortifications, churches, Muslim and Christian cemeteries, bathhouses, and workshops. A palaeoarchaeological site at Dmanisi, unearthed under the medieval layers, has yielded a set of hominin fossils, dated to approximately 1.85 to 1.75 million years ago, one of the earliest unequivocal evidence for presence of the genus Homo outside the African continent.