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This is the bottom of Unit 2, Level 2. It has taken two days of digging to get to this point. The Unit is 2 meters by 2 meters in dimension and is currently about 50 cm deep in the upper right (SW) corner and about 75 cm deep in the bottom left (NE) corner. There is a significant slope or hill that drops off about 40-50 cm out from the SW corner and a lot of very large pieces of charred wood and fire-cracked rocks all along the bottom of that slope. The working hypothesis is that this represents the ground surface when people, probably Okhotsk culture, lived here in the 8th-9th Century. Vodapadnaya excavation site, Simushir, Kuril Islands, Russia.

Credit to read: Photo by Misty Nikula (PolarTREC 2007), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Misty Nikula
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