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    Contents

    Foreword     vii
    Thomas H. McGovern

    Chapter Abstracts     xiii
    Introduction: Learning to Live with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental
    Change     1
    Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper
    Chapter 1. Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the
    Kuril Islands     19
    Ben Fitzhugh
    Chapter 2. Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex
    Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America     43
    Payson Sheets
    Chapter 3. Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in
    Iceland     67
    Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson
    Chapter 4. Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat,
    Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean     91
    Jago Cooper

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