Information and IdeasVery hardEvidence for a claim about a road's builders
Information and Ideas practice question
An archaeologist argues that a stretch of road was built not by the Romans, as long assumed, but by a local people two centuries earlier.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. Wooden posts set into the road's foundation have been dated by tree-ring analysis to 180 BC, two centuries before the Romans arrived in the region.Correct
- B. The road is straight for several miles.
- C. Roman coins have been found in a field beside the road.
- D. The road was still in use in the Middle Ages.
Answer: A. Wooden posts set into the road's foundation have been dated by tree-ring analysis to 180 BC, two centuries before the Romans arrived in the region.
Tree-ring dates before the Romans.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The road is straight for several miles.
- Straightness does not identify builders.
- C. Roman coins have been found in a field beside the road.
- Coins nearby show later use, not construction.
- D. The road was still in use in the Middle Ages.
- Later use says nothing about origin.
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