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A scientific article authored by a visiting doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, entitled "An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo" was published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
Ana Margevelashvili is a dentist, Visiting Doctor of TSU Faculty of Medicine, Doctor of Natural Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Georgian National Museum.
Dmanisi cranium (braincase) offers new insights into the lifestyle of early humans’! Did they fight with each other or competing groups? Yes, this individual has several marks from traumatic injuries on the head, indicating blunt force trauma. Did they get sick? Yes, they did get sick and this specific individual might have been ill with treponematosis. Did early humans manage to survive not being prey to the fierce predators roaming Dmanisi? Some managed to survive and others – did not. This Dmanisi individual probably fell prey to a giant hyena or one of the big felids (lion, sabertoothed cat). The busy, stressful life of early humans.
Read about it in the new research from the Dmanisi team: Link