Some of these people were from Russia, while others were from Alaska. There were also a lot of California Indians living there, too. Fort Ross was a multi-cultural settlement because people from all over the world lived there. Left, Archaeologists search their screen for discoveries. Right, A stone knife is found in the screen.
Archaeologists find all kinds of things when they dig at Fort Ross.
Some of the things they find once belonged to Russian people. These are things like gun flints, old glass bottles, metal crosses, broken dishes, and iron spikes. And some of the things found at Fort Ross were left there by the California Indians. These are things like obsidian arrowheads, clamshell beads, and stone bowls. When archaeologists find these objects, they better understand what life was like for those earlier people who lived at Fort Ross.