08-MAE-01 (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mike Etnier.

2008 Kharimkotan Island Survey Field Notes

PROJECT Ben Fitzhugh.

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...

IMAGE Mike Etnier.

Lake Lazurnoye Site Photographs (Test pit 1 bottom of excavation)