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DOCUMENT Full-Text Breannyn MacInnes. Natalia Slobodina.

Tephra and radiocarbon date correlations between geologic sections and archaeological profiles from all 3 years of fieldwork in the Kuril Islands during the KBP.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Fitzhugh.

This report documents the archaeological field results from the 2006 expedition to the Kurils. This expedition was sponsored by the Sakhalin Regional Museum under the direction of Dr. Tatiana Roon. Dr. Valery O. Shubin of the Sakhalin Regional Museum, served as expedition chief and lead Russian archaeologist. Dr. Ben Fitzhugh is the international director of the Kuril Biocomplexity Project and lead American archaeologist. Dr. Tetsuya Amano served as lead Japanese archaeologist.

IMAGE Ben Fitzhugh.

Vasino 1 Site Photographs

IMAGE James Taylor.

Vasino 1 Site Photographs (Taylor).