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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "contradiction" mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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The passage indicates that Peterson identifies which of the following as obstacles faced by the women included in her study?
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Pueblo Bonito, the most impressive of the "great houses" at the prehistoric Chaco Canyon site in New Mexico, comprised over 600 rooms and 4 to 5 stories. Traditional interpretations have viewed the great houses as almost entirely residential, with some archaeologists estimating the population of Pueblo Bonito at 1,200. But Windes recently challenged this view by pointing out the paucity of hearths recorded during the excavation of Pueblo Bonito, which revealed only 3 upper-story hearths, in contrast to 59 ground-floor hearths: habituation rooms would have required hearths for cooking and heat.
It is possible, however, that the collapse of upper-story floors disturbed evidence of upper-story hearths to such an extent that they were not revealed by early excavations such as those conducted by Pepper`s field crews in the 1890s and Judd`s in the 1920s. Additionally, reliance on room features for early population estimates is complicated by the Chacoan`s later remodeling, especially given Judd`s disinclination to destroy later structures and features to expose earlier ones. The failure of early excavations to strip off intact floors may have concealed evidence of hearths in upper-story rooms.
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The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about Windes` argument?
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It can be inferred from the passage that Windes would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about room usage in Pueblo Bonito?
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Which of the following can be inferred about the excavation work performed by Judd`s field crew?
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According to the passage, archaeologists have traditionally believed which of the following about the great houses of Chaco Canyon?
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Since the 1970s, archaeological sites in China`s Yangtze River region have yielded evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies that predate signs of rice cultivation elsewhere in East Asia by a thousand years. Before this evidence was discovered, it had generally been assumed that rice farming began farther to the south. This scenario was based both on the geographic range of wild or free-living rice, which was not thought to extend as far north as the Yangtze, and on archaeological records of very early domestic rice from Southeast Asia and India (now known to be not so old as first reported). Proponents of the southern-origin theory point out that early rice-farming societies along the Yangtze were already highly developed and that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation is missing. They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice.
Yet while most strands of wild rice reported in a 1984 survey were concentrated to the south of the Yangtze drainage, two northern outlier populations were also discovered in provinces along the middle and lower Yangtze, evidence that the Yangtze wetlands may fall within both the present-day and the historical geographic ranges of rice`s wild ancestor.
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Which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the conclusion that the author makes based on the 1984 survey?
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Based on the passage, skeptics of the idea that rice cultivation began in the Yangtze River region pointed to which of the following for support?
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Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the "southern-origin theory?"
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