The Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (CCCCC) has long identified the greatest hazards of global climate change in the Caribbean as 1) sea-level rise, 2) hurricane events, and 3) precipitation variability (3). Human communities have experienced all of these impacts over time, necessitating a review of divergent human experiences based on the interplay between ways of life, ecological context, and environmental hazard. Archaeological and historical investigations demonstrate how human communities have lived through the impacts of climatic hazards over the past 6 ka.