Talk:Broad spectrum revolution

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Actully yes, a book that was assigned to me for my Anthropology 111-A class; Anthropology The Exploration of Human Diversity Eleventh Edition by Conrad Phillip Kottak (who apparrently works/worked at the University of Michigan). In the first paragraph of chapter 10 it says: "With glacial retreat, foragers pursued a more generalized economy, focusing less on large animals. This as the beginning of what Kent Flannery (1969) has called the broad-spectrum revolution. This refers to the period beginning around 15,000 B.P. in the Middle East and 12,000 B.P. in Europe, during which a wider rane, or broader spectrum, of plant and animal life was huntd, gathered, colledted, caught, and fished. It was revolutionary because, in the Middle East, it led to food production-human control over the reproduction of plants and animals." Now My form of writing would be less `wordy', and I would change it to something like "It was 'seen' as revolutionary because..." to make it so that it is described as a fact and not an opinion. P.S. That's only from one paragraph i.e. there's still the rest of that section that goes over the broad-spectrum theory along with the rest of the chapter that gives topics that are related to this.--The King of the Hippies 10:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have any evidence for this? The whole article is badly in need of some references and citations. Is this just someone's theory? Whose? m.e. 05:52, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it would be a good point to point out that this was a `switch' into the domestication of plants and animals from our previous roaming and scavaging. (I'm not 100% sure on the `what we were doing before then' part though)