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List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: culturalresponses to risk and uncertainty P. Halstead and J. O'Shea; 2. Thespirit of survival: cultural responses to resource variability in NorthAlaska L. Minc and K. Smith; 3. Saving it for later: storage byprehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe P. Rowley-Conwy and M. Zvelebil;4. The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems:tales from the lakes and the plains J. O'Shea; 5. The economy has anormal surplus: economic stability and social change among earlyfarming communities of Thessaly, Greece P. Halstead; 6. Changingresponses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger K. Legge; 7. Thegrandfathers and grand theories: the hierarchised ordering of responsesto hazard in a Greek rural community H. Forbes; 8. Risk and the polis:the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems inthe ancient Greek state P. Garnsey and I. Morris; 9. Monitoringinterannual variability: an example from the period of early statedevelopment in southwestern Iran H. Wright, R. Redding and S. Pollock;10. Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe W.Jongman and R. Dekker; 11. Conclusion: bad year economics J.O'Shea andP. Halstead; References; Index.