120. The earliest Mayan pottery found at Colha, in Belize,
is about 3,000 years old. Recently, however,
4,500-year-old stone agricultural implements were
unearthed at Colha. These implements resemble
Mayan stone implements of a much later period,
also found at Colha. Moreover, the implements'
designs are strikingly different from the designs of
stone implements produced by other cultures known
to have inhabited the area in prehistoric times.
Therefore, there were surely Mayan settlements in
Colha 4,500 years ago.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens
the argument?
(A)Ceramic ware is not known to have been used
by the Mayan people to make agricultural
implements.
(B)Carbon-dating of corn pollen in Colha indicates
that agriculture began there around 4,500 years
ago.
(C)Archaeological evidence indicates that some of
the oldest stone implements found at Colha
were used to cut away vegetation after
controlled burning of trees to open areas of
swampland for cultivation.
(D)Successor cultures at a given site often adopt
the style of agricultural implements used by
earlier inhabitants of the same site.
(E)Many religious and social institutions of the
Mayan people who inhabited Colha 3,000 years
ago relied on a highly developed system of
agricultural symbols.
The stimulus only tells us that the implements designs are different from the designs of stone implements produced by other culture KNOWN to have inhabited the area in prehistoric times.Perhaps there really exsits one culture,and we don't know it.
-- by 会员 dengts (2011/4/6 21:11:08)
4500年的更早,3000年的晚(玛雅人),那么如果玛雅人在居住地方继承了先前居住在此地的人的传统、器具,那么使用的东西当人会像,但先前的人不一定是玛雅人
-- by 会员 fuzheng602 (2011/4/6 20:59:18)
4500年的更早,3000年的晚(玛雅人),那么如果玛雅人在居住地方继承了先前居住在此地的人的传统、器具,那么使用的东西当人会像,但先前的人不一定是玛雅人
-- by 会员 fuzheng602 (2011/4/6 20:59:18)
非常同意,大家注意文中的表述
earliest Mayan pottery 发现在3000年前,而 stone agricultural implements 发现在4500年前,注意这两种发现是不同而且没有包含关系的材质。接着,Moreover, the implements' designs are strikingly different from the designs of stone implements produced by other cultures known to have inhabited the area in prehistoric times.也就是说其实这一句比较的都是stone implement,所以other culture生产的implements是和4500年前的那个作比较的,这里就产生了一个time gap
4500年前——3000年前的情况就不清楚了,中间有可能有别的culture学了4500年前的,然后Mayan又学了这个culture的。故不能推出Mayan是在4500年前就在C地的。
-- by 会员 plainn (2012/4/6 21:01:38)
3000年前 pottery, mayan