Kuril Biocomplexity Project Archive (NSF 0508109)
Summary
A broadly interdisciplinary, international team investigated the complex web of cultural, ecological, geological, and climate systems in the Kuril Islands. The Kurils provide uniquely laboratory-like conditions for this study, permitting examination of past changes in local climates and ecosystems along an island chain. The islands are situated along a latitudinal gradient extending from temperate Hokkaido Island (north of Japan) to subarctic Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. Evidence of human colonization, persistence and abandonment at various times in the past five millennia and under different social, economic, and technological regimes, was used to study vulnerability and resilience of humans to both catastrophic and gradual environmental changes. At the same time, researchers examined reciprocal effects humans have on relatively insular biota. Through the development and refinement of integrated human-environmental models and simulations, the research sought to quantify these relationships.
Cite this Record
Kuril Biocomplexity Project Archive (NSF 0508109). ( tDAR id: 375726) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8BC40ZG
Keywords
Culture
Ainu
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Epi-Jomon
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Jomon
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Okhotsk
Material
Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Dating Sample
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Fauna
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Shell
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Wood
Site Name
Ainu Bay 1/2
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Ainu Creek
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Alekhina 1
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Aliger 2
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Asin 1
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Bashmak 1
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Bashmak 2
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Belozyorka 1
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Belozyorka 3
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Berezovka 1
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Berezovka 2
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Blagodatnoye 1
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Blagodatnoye 2
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Blagodatnoye 3
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Bukhta Vostok
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Bukhta Zakat
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Cape Ankuchi
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Cape Gorelyy
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Cape Lisiy
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Cape Lisiy Cove
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Chirinkotan 1
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Danilova 2
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Drobnyye 1
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Ekarma 1
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Ekarma 2
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Glukhoe 1
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Glukhoe 2
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Glush
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Golovina Beach
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Kasatka Bay 1
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Kedrovka River
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Khrimkotan 1
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Khvoinaya 1 (Burevestnik)
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Kokina Cape
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Kompaneyskoye 1
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Kompaneyskoye 2
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Kubushevskaya 1
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Lake Lazurnoye
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Malovodnaya 1
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Malovodnaya 2
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Nakatamori 1
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Nemo Bay 2
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Okeanskoye
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Oktyabrskoe 1
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Olya 1
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Onekotan
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Peschanaya 1
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Peschanaya 2
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Rasshua 1
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Rasshua 2
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Rasshua 3
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Rebristyy 1
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Rikorda 1
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Rybaki 1
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Ryponkicha 1
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Ryponkicha 2
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Saratovka 1
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Savushkina 1
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Savushkina 2
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Sennaya 2
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Serebryanoe 2
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Sernovodsk 1
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Spokoyny Creek
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Terrace 1
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Tikhaya 1
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Tokotan 4
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Tyomnaya 2
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Unnamed River "North of Olkovaya River"
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Vodopadnaya 2
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Vysokotravnaya 1
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Yagodnyy North
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Yankicha 2
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Yankito 1
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Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Domestic Structures
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Encampment
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Settlements
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Data Recovery / Excavation
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Environment Research
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Reconnaissance / Survey
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Site Evaluation / Testing
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Systematic Survey
Geographic Keywords
Kuril Islands
Temporal Keywords
Late Holocene
Spatial Coverage
min long: 144.58; min lat: 43.325 ; max long: 157.061; max lat: 51.509 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Principal Investigator(s): Ben Fitzhugh
Record Identifiers
NSF(s): 0508109