The Earliest Evidence of Human Settlement in the Kurile Islands (Russian Far East): The Yankito Site Cluster, Iturup Island

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study was supported by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography, the Russian Foundation for Basic Sciences (06−06−80258), and the U.S. National Science Foundation (EAR04−48461). We are grateful to the AMS Laboratory at the University of Arizona for14C dating and to Dr. Scott M. Fitzpatrick for his encouragement to submit this paper and for editorial assistance. We also acknowledge the pioneering work done in the 1980s to early 1990s by the late Prof. Y. V. Knorozov (1922–1999) without which this study would not have been possible.