ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the extraordinary resilience of people in the face of catastrophe and the persistence of settlement even in the face of repeated environmental threat. The behaviour described below is a salutary lesson to all archaeological researchers that it is dangerous to assume that there is a clear correlation between threat and cultural response. In reality, as this chapter illustrates, the relationship is very complicated and conditioned by socio-cultural influences that may not be detectable in the archaeological record.
