The broad-spectrum revolution

A. set the stage for the development of food production based on plant cultivation and animal domestication.
B. led to a fluorescence of colored cave paintings beginning around 70,000 B.P.
C. led to a new technological tradition based on flaked tools.
D. led to the extinction of the Neandertals.
E. provided the environmental circumstances favoring the evolution of "mitochondrial Eve."


Answer: A

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