PrepTest 108, Section 4, Question 23
Darwin's conception of early prehistoric humans as confident,(443 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(34 more words not shown)
- AThe fact that(31 more words not shown)
- BThe fact that(35 more words not shown)
- CThe fact that(26 more words not shown)
- DThe fact that(29 more words not shown)
- EThe fact that(25 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The toothmarks came first; the tool cuts came afterward. That's the crucial sequence. If a carnivore had already been feeding on the animal before a hominid cut it up, the hominid may have arrived to scavenge a kill rather than having made the kill itself.
Working the answers
- A
The lack of systematic cuts at the joints is real evidence. But the researchers don't use it to compare hunting and butchering skill across different eras. Their conclusion is about scavenging versus hunting.
- B
The marks' irregular placement is mentioned, so that part isn't invented. The unsupported addition is the story about rushing to finish before another group of hominids arrived. The researchers don't infer that competition.
- C
This keeps hominids as the hunters and invents a problem with butchering quickly enough. The researchers instead take the sequence as evidence that an animal predator made the kill before the hominids came upon it.
- DCorrect
This connects the order of the marks to the scavenging hypothesis. Carnivore toothmarks underneath tool cuts suggest the predator got there first and the hominids later worked on the remains.
- E
Marks made by both predators and hominids don't establish a preference for large prey. Size isn't the distinction these researchers draw.
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