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Information and Ideas practice question
An archaeologist claims that the hill settlement traded with the coast, forty miles away, in the Iron Age.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the archaeologist's claim?
- A. Iron Age layers at the settlement contain shells of a species found only on the coast, along with beads of a glass made at a coastal workshop.Correct
- B. The settlement is on a hill.
- C. The coast is forty miles away.
- D. Iron Age people sometimes travelled long distances.
Answer: A. Iron Age layers at the settlement contain shells of a species found only on the coast, along with beads of a glass made at a coastal workshop.
Coastal shells and coastal glass in Iron Age layers: goods from the coast.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The settlement is on a hill.
- The premise.
- C. The coast is forty miles away.
- The premise.
- D. Iron Age people sometimes travelled long distances.
- A general possibility, not evidence about this settlement.
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