The broad spectrum revolution at 40: resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations
MA Zeder�- Journal of anthropological archaeology, 2012 - Elsevier
More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in
the Near East that preceded and helped pave the way for the domestication and plants and
animals and the emergence of agriculture. Set within a demographic density model that
projected differential rates of population growth and emigration in different resource zones of
the Near East, Flannery's BSR quickly became a global construct linking resource�…
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in
the Near East that preceded and helped pave the way for the domestication and plants and
animals and the emergence of agriculture. Set within a demographic density model that
projected differential rates of population growth and emigration in different resource zones of
the Near East, Flannery's BSR quickly became a global construct linking resource�…