What Is the Binford-Flannery Model for the Development of Food

question 10

Multiple Choice

What is the Binford-Flannery model for the development of food production?

• A) People used domestication to replicate their previous diets in suboptimal regions.
• B) There was an economic incentive for food production, because it could be sold to neighboring peoples.
• C) Food production creates adequate nutrition with less work than hunting and gathering.
• D) People had to respond to rapid and drastic environmental change at the end of the Paleolithic.

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