Which of the following regarding Europe by 10,000 B.P. is FALSE?
A. The process of preserving meat and fish by smoking and salting grew increasingly important.
B. The continent's coasts and lakes were fished intensively with new technologies such as the characteristic Mesolithic stone blades and microliths used as fishhooks and in harpoons.
C. The range of hunting, gathering, and fishing populations extended to the formerly glaciated British Isles and Scandinavia.
D. The continent was forest rather than treeless steppe and tundra, as it had been during the Upper Paleolithic.
E. As a consequence of the increase in forest species, people increasingly practiced new hunting techniques, mainly solitary stalking and trapping, similar to more recent practices of many Native American groups.
Answer: B
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