To What Did Kent Flannery (1969)refer with the Term Broad-Spectrum

question 58

Multiple Choice

To what did Kent Flannery (1969) refer with the term broad-spectrum revolution?

• 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 actually "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 colonized the entire world,made possible by a smarter utilization of a wider range of environments

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Definitions:

Price Elasticity

Indicates the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price.

Supply Curves

Graphical representations showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity supplied by producers at that price.

Q₁Q₂ Range

Refers to the spectrum between two quantities, Q₁ and Q₂, often used to describe the range of output levels in economic analysis.

Elastic Supply

A situation where the quantity supplied of a good or service changes significantly when its price changes.