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Climate and Environment in Late Paleolithic Southwest Europe

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In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe

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Although the Broad Spectrum Revolution model focuses primarily on human population pressure, environmental variables also contribute to the carrying capacity of any particular landscape. For this reason, understanding environmental change is critical to any test of the Broad Spectrum Revolution. In this chapter, I review paleoenvironmental data for Late Paleolithic Southwest Europe and establish three paleobioclimatic regions: Mediterranean Iberia (comprising the central and southern portions of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Mediterranean coast up to the Pyrenees); Euro-Siberian Iberia (the northernmost portion of Iberia); and southern France.

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