In this brief article, Papazoi provides a brief overview of what the excavations at Akrotiri reveal about the society and its response to seismic activity. The site shows that the population had returned to the town after damage from seismic activity and were engaged in building repairs which indicate an adaptive response to risks posed by earthquakes. The building technologies employed to make buildings safer may have been borrowed from Minoan Crete, but such repairs were incomplete before the entire population evacuated the settlement prior to the volcanic eruption which completely buried it.
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