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by richachampion » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:24 pm
Archaeologist: Researchers excavating a burial site in Cyprus found a feline skeleton lying near a human skeleton. Both skeletons were in the same sediment at the same depth and equally well-preserved, suggesting that the feline and human were buried together about 9,500 years ago. This shows that felines were domesticated around the time farming began, when they would have been useful in protecting stores of grain from mice.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the archaeologist's argument?

(A) Archaeologists have not found any remains of stores of grain in the immediate vicinity of the burial site.
(B) The burial site in Cyprus is substantially older than any other known burial site in which a feline skeleton and a human skeleton appear to have been buried together.
(C) Paintings found near the burial site seem to show people keeping felines as domestic companions, but do not show felines hunting mice.
(D) In Cyprus, there are many burial sites dating from around 9,500 years ago in which the remains of wild animals appear to have been buried alongside human remains.
(E) Before felines were domesticated, early farmers had no effective way to protect stores of grain from mice.
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by richachampion » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:24 pm
OA: D
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by richachampion » Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:34 pm
In my opinion there are two ways to counter the argument =

1. The Domestication never happened.
2. Domestication didn't happened at the time frame specified in the argument, but earlier or later.

I think Option D does that, but i will wait for the experts to reply.
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