The Atlantic hurricane season could be busier than normal, with as many as 11 hurricanes, five of which could be major storms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting this busy hurricane season with 70 percent confidence.
NOAA’s forecast might have residents on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts thinking this is the year to invest in storm shutters or thicker garage doors.
Hurricanes, however, aren’t new, and people have been coping with these fierce storms for thousands of years; archaeologists have found evidence that people have been living in the Caribbean islands for 8,000 years before present.
So, how did ancient peoples cope with hurricanes? Here are three ways.
Historians have found commonalities in how people around the Atlantic weathered hurricanes. Modern building codes keep hurricanes in mind, and ancient people were also hurricane-minded when they constructed their dwellings.
The Kalinago people lived in the Lesser Antilles for ...
