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Contents<br />

Foreword vii<br />

Thomas H. McGovern<br />

Chapter Abstracts<br />

xiii<br />

Introduction: Learning to Live with the Dangers <strong>of</strong> Sudden Environmental<br />

Change 1<br />

Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper<br />

Chapter 1. Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Kuril Islands 19<br />

Ben Fitzhugh<br />

Chapter 2. Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex<br />

Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America 43<br />

Payson Sheets<br />

Chapter 3. Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in<br />

Iceland 67<br />

Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson<br />

Chapter 4. Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat,<br />

Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean 91<br />

Jago Cooper<br />

v

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