Kuril Biocomplexity Research

Site Name Keywords
Vodopadnaya 2 • Bukhta Zakat • Ainu Bay 1/2 • Ryponkicha 2 • Peschanaya 1 • Kompaneyskoye 1 • Ryponkicha 1 • Drobnyye 1 • Ainu Creek • Alekhina 1

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Encampment • Domestic Structures • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Archaeological Feature • Midden • Shell Midden • Artifact Scatter

Culture Keywords
Ainu • Okhotsk • Jomon • Epi-Jomon

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey • Environment Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Shell • Wood

Temporal Keywords
Late Holocene

Geographic Keywords
Kuril Islands • Sakhalinskaya oblast' (State / Territory) • Asia (Continent) • Simushir Island • Russian Federation (Country) • RU (ISO Country Code) • Kunashir Island • Iturup Island • Shumshu Island • Urup Island

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  • Kuril Biocomplexity Project Archive (NSF 0508109)
    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...