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.

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Kuril Biocomplexity Project Archive (NSF 0508109). ( tDAR id: 375726) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8BC40ZG

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Keywords

Culture
Ainu • Epi-Jomon • Jomon • Okhotsk

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

Site Name
Ainu Bay 1/2 • Ainu Creek • Alekhina 1 • Aliger 2 • Asin 1 • Bashmak 1 • Bashmak 2 • Belozyorka 1 • Belozyorka 3 • Berezovka 1 • Berezovka 2 • Blagodatnoye 1 • Blagodatnoye 2 • Blagodatnoye 3 • Bukhta Vostok • Bukhta Zakat • Cape Ankuchi • Cape Gorelyy • Cape Lisiy • Cape Lisiy Cove • Chirinkotan 1 • Danilova 2 • Drobnyye 1 • Ekarma 1 • Ekarma 2 • Glukhoe 1 • Glukhoe 2 • Glush • Golovina Beach • Kasatka Bay 1 • Kedrovka River • Khrimkotan 1 • Khvoinaya 1 (Burevestnik) • Kokina Cape • Kompaneyskoye 1 • Kompaneyskoye 2 • Kubushevskaya 1 • Lake Lazurnoye • Malovodnaya 1 • Malovodnaya 2 • Nakatamori 1 • Nemo Bay 2 • Okeanskoye • Oktyabrskoe 1 • Olya 1 • Onekotan • Peschanaya 1 • Peschanaya 2 • Rasshua 1 • Rasshua 2 • Rasshua 3 • Rebristyy 1 • Rikorda 1 • Rybaki 1 • Ryponkicha 1 • Ryponkicha 2 • Saratovka 1 • Savushkina 1 • Savushkina 2 • Sennaya 2 • Serebryanoe 2 • Sernovodsk 1 • Spokoyny Creek • Terrace 1 • Tikhaya 1 • Tokotan 4 • Tyomnaya 2 • Unnamed River "North of Olkovaya River" • Vodopadnaya 2 • Vysokotravnaya 1 • Yagodnyy North • Yankicha 2 • Yankito 1 Show More

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Settlements

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

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 101-196 of 196)

Images

  1. Kompaneyskyy 1 Artifact Photographs (2008)
  2. Kompaneyskyy 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  3. Kuybyshevskaya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  4. Lake Lazurnoye Site Photographs (2008)
  5. Nemo Bay 2 Site Photographs (2008)
  6. North Simushir Map with Archaeological Sites (2006)
  7. Okeanskoye 1 Map (2006)
  8. Okeanskoye 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  9. Olya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  10. Olya 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  11. Peschanaya 1 Artifact Photorgraphs (2008)
  12. Peschanaya 1 Site Photorgraphs (2006)
  13. Peschanaya 2 Site Photographs (2006)
  14. Peschanoye 1 and 2 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  15. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (1) (2008)
  16. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (11) (2008)
  17. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (12) (2008)
  18. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (13) (2008)
  19. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (14) (2008)
  20. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (15) (2008)
  21. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (16) (2008)
  22. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (17) (2008)
  23. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (18) (2008)
  24. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (19) (2008)
  25. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (2) (2008)
  26. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (21) (2008)
  27. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (3) (2008)
  28. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (4) (2008)
  29. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (5) (2008)
  30. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (6) (2008)
  31. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (7) (2008)
  32. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (8) (2008)
  33. Rasshua 1 Artifact Photographs (9) (2008)
  34. Rasshua 1 Test Excavation Site Photographs (Etnier) (2008)
  35. Rasshua 1 Test Excavation Site Photographs (Gjesfjeld) (2008)
  36. Rasshua 2 Probe Stratigraphy (2007)
  37. Rebristyy 1 Maps (2007)
  38. Rebristyy 1 Profile (2007)
  39. Rikorda 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  40. Rikorda 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  41. Ryponkicha 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  42. Ryponkicha 1 Level Maps (2006)
  43. Ryponkicha 1 Map (2006)
  44. Ryponkicha 1 Profiles (2006)
  45. Ryponkicha 2 Artifact Photographs (2008)
  46. Ryponkicha 2 Profile (2006)
  47. Ryponkicha 2 Site Photographs (2006)
  48. Savushkina 1 Map (2006)
  49. Savushkina 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  50. Savushkina 2 Map (2006)
  51. Savushkina 2 Site Photographs (2006)
  52. Sernovodsk 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  53. Sernovodsk 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  54. Spokoyny Creek Artifact Photographs (2006)
  55. Spokoyny Creek Site Photographs (2006)
  56. Spokoyny Creek Site Photographs (2006)
  57. Tikhaya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  58. Tikhaya 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  59. Tikhaya 1 Site Photographs (Taylor) (2006)
  60. Tokotan 4 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  61. Tokotan 4 Site Photographs (Taylor) (2006)
  62. Trudnaya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  63. Tukharka 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  64. Tukharka 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  65. Ushishir Islands Map with Archaeological Sites (2006)
  66. Vasino 1 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) (2006)
  67. Vasino 1 Site Photographs (Taylor) (2006)
  68. Vodopadnaya 1 Map (2006)
  69. Vodopadnaya 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  70. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (2006)
  71. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 1) (2007)
  72. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 2) (2007)
  73. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 3) (2007)
  74. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 4) (2007)
  75. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 5) (2007)
  76. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 6) (2007)
  77. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 7) (2007)
  78. Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 8) (2007)
  79. Vodopadnaya 2 Level Maps (2007)
  80. Vodopadnaya 2 Maps (2007)
  81. Vodopadnaya 2 Profiles (2007)
  82. Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (2007)
  83. Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Etnier) (2007)
  84. Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) Part 1 (2008)
  85. Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) Part 2 (2007)
  86. Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Phillips) (2007)
  87. Vodopadnaya 3 Map (2006)
  88. Vodopadnaya 3 Site Photographs (2006)
  89. Yagodnyy North Site Photographs (2008)
  90. Yankicha 1 Map (2006)
  91. Yankicha 1 Site Photographs (2006)
  92. Yankicha 2 Map (2006)

Datasets

  1. ICP-MS Data on Kuril Island Pottery from E. Gjesfjeld's 2014 PhD Thesis (2014)
  2. KBP Site Locations (2009)
  3. KBP-Pottery: Descriptive Measurements (2014)
  4. Kuril Island Pottery - Types and Radiocarbon Dates from E. Gjesfjeld's 2014 PhD Thesis (2014)