▶ Your Answer :
In
the given set of information, both the professor and the reading passage deal
with the original homeland of the Eruscans. The reading passage gives three
pieces of information to prove its point, whereas the professor refutes them.
First
and foremost, the presenter indicates that DNA evidence is hard to believe
because that is too old, so the evidence might be damaged. Considering many
people who came to contact that, the DNA evidence would have been contaminated.
This debunks the author’s hypothesis that DNA evidence shows that the Etruscans
have Turkish roots.
Next,
according to the lecturer, the language used by the Etruscans cannot prove that
the Eruscans have Turkish roots. This is supported by the fact that different
languages sometimes have similar alphabets. Additionally, there is possibility
that the Etruscans are only surviving members of the language. This opposes the
reading’s argument that the language used by the Etruscans indicates that they
came from Turkey.
Lastly,
the speaker states that funerary practices such as cremation cannot support the
claim that the Eruscan civilization came from Turkey. To be specific, the
practice such as cremation have existed way too before the Eruscans, so the
Eruscans might be simply successors of the practice. This counters the writer’s
point that a link between the Turks and the Etruscans is found in shared
funerary practices. |