I just returned from a really great workshop entitled "The Role of the Southern Caucasus on Early Human Evolution and Expansion−Refuge, Hub or Source Area?" that was held at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi from October 15-20. The workshop was organized by the project The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, whose main goal, according to their website "is to explain the reasons for different hominin expansions." The whole experience was excellent, and I was able to see a few good friends and learn about the latest research in the southern Caucasus. The Dmanisi team also announced the newest hominin cranium (the timing, I think, was not a coincidence). I'll blog about this in more detail soon....
