Thirty years on the “Broad Spectrum Revolution” and paleolithic demography
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Once settled into new environments, human populations grew to levels unprecedented by earlier Hominins, putting pressure on plant and animal resources that ultimately led to expanding human procurement of increasingly smaller and harder to catch prey, in an adaptive transition dubbed the "broad spectrum revolution."
“Once settled into new environments, human populations grew to levels unprecedented by earlier Hominins, putting pressure on plant and animal resources that ultimately led to expanding human procurement of increasingly smaller and harder to catch prey, in an adaptive transition that archaeologists have dubbed the “broad spectrum revolution” (57).”
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- Authors
- Stiner, M. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stiner, Mary C.
- ORCID
- Stiner, Mary C.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2001-06-05
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 6993-6996
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC34611
- OpenAlex
- W2142070825
- Cited by
- 463
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 19.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- hunter-gatherer subsistence, population size, prehistoric human populations, foraging strategies
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Demography, Diet, Feeding Behavior, Geography, Humans, Paleontology, Hominidae, Mediterranean Region
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