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Encyclopedia > Broad spectrum revolution

The Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) hypothesis, proposed by Kent Flannery in 1969 in "The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals", suggested that the emergence of the Neolithic in western Asia was prefaced by increases in dietary breadth in Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic foraging societies just before this period. The Neolithic (or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ... The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the Middle Stone Age) is the period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. ... The Epipalaeolithic (or Epi-Palaeolithic, Epipaleolithic, or Epi-Paleolithic) was a period in the development of human technology that immediately precedes the neolithic period, as an alternative to mesolithic. ...


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