The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations

By M. Zeder. 2012

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Subfields: Paleontology

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In Paleontology

1. Erle C. Ellis
2. Christopher T. Morgan
3. Bruce D. Smith
4. M. Zeder
5. Kevin N. Laland

Citations in the corpus

• Is it Intensification Yet? Current Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Economies (2015, background): “…evidence for increased diet breadth and sedentism at the dawn of the Holocene (e.g., Henry 1985), but the extent to which this truly represented intensification (in the Boserupian sense) or even association with the development of agriculture is currently in doubt as much now as ever (Zeder 2012).”
• Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…megafauna extinct (Barnosky 2008) and requiring the broadening of August 2015 305ESA CENTENNIAL PAPER ERLE C. ELLIS306 Ecological Monographs Vol. 85, No. 3 hunting and foraging strategies to obtain adequate nutrition once preferred prey and plant resources became rare (Stiner 2001, Zeder 2012).”
• A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication (2011, background): “as the ‘‘broad-spectrum revolution’’ (Zeder 2012), represents an extended phase of wide-ranging exploration, experimentation, and social learning (Laland and Brown 2002) by small-scale human societies as they comprehensively ‘‘auditioned’’ component species of these unusually rich biotic communities”
• A Comparison of Niche Construction Theory and Diet Breadth Models as Explanatory Frameworks for the Initial Domestication of Plants and Animals (2015, background): “and antithetical explanations for initial domestication have recently gained prominence—the first based on diet breadth modeling (DBM) of the optimal foraging theory (OFT) family of models (Gremillion 1998, 2004; Kennett and Winterhalder 2006; Piperno 2006, 2011), and the second on niche constructio”