Lewis Binford has suggested that one source of demographic stress at the end of the Pleistocene period was __________

A. the concentration of plant and animal resources around reliable water sources
B. a rise in global sea levels that forced coastal peoples to move farther inland
C. increased seasonality in the availability of wild food resources
D. a dramatic increase in human fertility due to evolutionary changes


Answer: B

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