What do Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery suggest must have influenced the changeover to food production?
A) Population growth pushed people out of optimal areas, and they turned to food production to try to reproduce the resources they once had.
B) People settled first, then realized that they would have to produce food to sustain their permanent residence patterns.
C) There was an economic incentive for foragers to become food producers.
D) Food production was spread culturally through contact with neighboring communities.
A
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