Prehistoric Resilience in the
Islands of the Four Mountains
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
This project, international and interdisciplinary in scope, will study the connections among geological, ecological, and human systems in the Islands of the Four Mountains (IFM), Aleutian Islands. Host to some of the world’s most active volcanoes, the IFM present a superlative opportunity to assess the development of prehistoric human risk management of and adaptations to geological instability (climate change, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, sea level change) through deep time.
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Google Earth image of the Aleutian Islands, stretching from Kamchatka, Russia in the west to mainland Alaska in the east. The Islands of the Four Mountains are located at the transition from the eastern Aleutians to the central Aleutians. Image of the islands from TerraSAR-X satellite radar.
Islands of the Four Mountains
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