▶ Your Answer :
In the reading passage, there is an ample support for the
author’s claim that there are several doubtful issues on Monte Verde. However,
the professor in the lecture gives a few reasons as rebuttal to the author’s
point.
First, the professor insists that it is true that there is
no sharp enough tool to hunt large animals, but there were plenty of vegetables
and moreover, with simple stones, they could have killed small animals, which
they could have subsisted on. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s
suggestion that if people had lived there, there should have found keep weapon
to catch animals, which are essential to live.
Second, the professor argues that they found some artificial
under the layer that could have used for farming. To put it this way, under the
surface, the layers are intact, so remains found in the land would not have
touched. This refutes the reading passage’s idea that there are, nowadays, many
farmers who could damage the land and artifact as well.
Finally, the professor contends that it is understandable
that some claim that the dating method, radiocarbon dating, is not accurate.
However, they have utilized not only radiocarbon analysis, but also other ways.
This counters the reading passage’s claim that radiocarbon dating that
scientists usually use is not correct when they put bitumen analysis on it.
13mins
225 words
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