Contents

FOREWORD

Thomas H. McGovern

CHAPTER ABSTRACTS

INTRODUCTION: Learning to Live with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change

Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper

CHAPTER 1. Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands

Ben Fitzhugh

CHAPTER 2. Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America

Payson Sheets

CHAPTER 3. Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in Iceland

Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson

CHAPTER 4. Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat, Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean

Jago Cooper

CHAPTER 5. Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru

Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter

CHAPTER 6. Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks: Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico

Emily McClung de Tapia

CHAPTER 7. Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia

Tate Paulette

CHAPTER 8. Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience: Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico

Margaret C. Nelson, Michelle Hegmon, Keith W. Kintigh, Ann P. Kinzig, Ben A. Nelson, John Marty Anderies, David A. Abbott, Katherine A. Spielmann, Scott E. Ingram, Matthew A. Peeples, Stephanie Kulow, Colleen A. Strawhacker, and Cathryn Meegan

CHAPTER 9. Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience: Some Concluding Thoughts

Timothy A. Kohler

CHAPTER 10. Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes

Charles L. Redman

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX