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| Broad-spectrum revolution |
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| Foraging of varied plant and animal foods at end of Ice Age; prelude to Neolithic |
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| stone toolmaking, emphasizing microliths with broad-spectrum economies |
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| term used to describe economies based on food production (cultivated crops and domesticated animals) |
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| woodland zone just north of Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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| widespread Middle Eastern foraging culture (12500-10500 B.P.) |
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| Middle America, including Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize |
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| corn; first domesticated in tropical southwestern Mexico around 8000 B.P. |
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| Cassava; tuber domesticated in South American lowlands |
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| wild ancestor of maize; grows wild in southwestern Mexico |
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