Multiple Choice
The subsistence strategy of the Mesolithic has been characterized as
A) exhibiting greater reliance on big-game hunting than in the Upper Paleolithic.
B) broad-spectrum food collection.
C) featuring a continued reliance on hunting coupled with growing plant crops.
D) combining the raising of domesticated herd animals with the gathering of wild food plants.
E) a final period of intensive big-game hunting, until all the large mammal species of the last Ice Age were extinct.
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