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This volume has explored the evidence for the presence of a Broad Spectrum Revolution in Late Paleolithic Southwest Europe from theoretical, paleoenvironmental, site location, and archaeofaunal perspectives. This chapter summarizes the findings of previous chapters and explores the connection between human demographic pressure and environmental stress. While the mammalian archeofaunal record from southern France does suggest change at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition (as does to a lesser extent that of Euro-Siberian Iberia), I find little evidence for environmental stress in this region and time period. Instead, local environmental variability seems to have shaped human response to warming climates.
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Jones, E.L. (2016). Was There a Broad Spectrum Revolution in Southwest Europe?. In: In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22351-3_6
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