Here is one final "Mystery Sound" posting, of something we heard quite a bit this summer. If you've ever been camping in the Pacific Northwest, then you've probably heard this at one time or another…
At the time I am writing this, I am safely back at my home in Bellingham. All the other team members have also either returned home or moved on to their next field season (Jody, Bre, and Andy are…
Here is some audio of something we got to see on a recent field trip on our single "day off" in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Can you guess what it is?
I'll give you a hint: it is cold and slippery. But it…
Since my last posting a few days ago, we have successfully (and safely) returned to solid ground. We steamed 670 km (415 miles) across the Sea of Okhotsk from our last field site (Kompaneskii, north…
We are steaming across the Sea of Okhotsk under sunny skies, making good time with the help of a gentle tail wind. This time we are headed west, on our return to Korsakov. I'll hopefully make a…
Today was another day that saw Iskatel (our ship and our home, for a few more days) hiding from a storm on the Pacific Ocean side of Simushir Island. As with our stay up at Matua, we decided to try…
Ahhh. Another weather day. This time we're on our way to Chirpoi Island, where we are scheduled to spend one day, and then the north end of Urup Island, where we're hoping to spend two days working…
13 August, 2008:
Note from Dr. E:
Dr Ben Fitzhugh, one of the project Principal Investigators, and I discussed the option of him submitting a guest journal entry and we decided that the best…
Note from Dr. E: This journal posting is a series of excerpts from Laska's personal journal from the past week or so. Any text in [brackets] has been added by me for clarification.21 July, Ekarma…
I am a graduate student at the University of Washington, and for the last two summers I have been working on the KBP project in the Kuril Islands as a member of the archaeology team. However, this…
As far as the list of "questions most often asked of archaeologists” is concerned, the question of "How do you decide where to dig?” is right up there with "Have you ever dug up any dinosaur bones?”…
We are on our way to Rasshua Island, hoping to set up a 7- or 8-day camp, with 27 people. I put in the "hoping" part because we are unsure if we will be able to find a spot that has a good source of…
