What Did Kent Flannery (1969) Refer to with the Term

question 12

Multiple Choice

What did Kent Flannery (1969) refer to with the term broad-spectrum revolution? The period

• A) The period in which Asia became the only place in the world with communities leading a sedentary life and engaging in food and animal domestication.
• B) The period in which the first large states began to grow, although there was nothing revolutionary about it because this process occurred very gradually.
• C) The period in which a wider range of tools was being fabricated, for both utilitarian and ritualistic purposes.
• D) The period beginning around 15,000 B.P. in the Middle East and 12,000 B.P. in Europe, during which a wider range of plant and animal life was hunted, gathered, collected, caught, and fished.
• E) The period between 20,000 B.P. and 10,000 B.P. when anatomically modern humans (AMHs) colonized the entire world, made possible by a smarter utilization of a wider range of environments.

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