Question

Passage A
The discovery of monumental architecture at early Neolithic sites has fundamentally upended traditional narratives of human prehistory. Previously, anthropologists posited that the advent of agriculture provided the surplus caloric resources necessary to support specialized labor and construct large-scale religious sanctuaries. However, the sheer scale of the earliest known megalithic sites, built by hunter-gatherer societies, suggests the precise opposite sequence. The immense logistical challenge of organizing, feeding, and managing the hundreds of workers required to carve and erect massive stone pillars necessitated a more reliable food supply. Thus, it was the social imperative of religious devotion—and the corresponding need to sustain a mobilized workforce—that directly catalyzed the domestication of wild cereals. Religion, not ecology, was the engine of the agricultural revolution.

Passage B
Recent re-evaluations of early Neolithic megalithic sites caution against the romanticized "temple-first" paradigm. While the monumental pillars are undeniably impressive, interpreting these locations exclusively as detached religious sanctuaries ignores the growing lithic and faunal evidence of substantial domestic activity on-site. More importantly, attempting to identify a single causal spark for the agricultural transition is conceptually flawed. The domestication of plants was a protracted, multi-millennial process occurring across diverse ecological zones, driven primarily by gradual climate shifts and population pressures. While monument construction undoubtedly required social cohesion, framing it as the primary catalyst for agriculture severely oversimplifies the archaeological record. These sites were likely complex communal settlements where nascent agricultural practices evolved concurrently with, rather than strictly as a result of, changing social structures.

Based on the passages, the authors would be most likely to disagree over which of the following statements?