Tool making strategies

A great deal of evidence suggests that in the Iberian region major changes in population, food sources, hunting and tool making strategies, beginning in the Last Glacial Period with climatic changes, helped push adaptions that brought on a more sedentary lifestyle leading to further behavioral changes developing the lifestyle of the Neolithic people.

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