Consider the following passage snippet regarding ancient Mediterranean settlements:
"In analyzing the collapse of Bronze Age urban networks in the Southern Levant, early twentieth-century archaeologists attributed the decline primarily to catastrophic warfare waged by external sea-raiders. However, recent isotopic analyses of botanical remains from domestic storage pits indicate that while violent destruction horizons are present at certain coastal sites, prolonged pan-regional droughts during the twelfth century BCE disrupted agricultural yields to such an extent that even inland urban centers unthreatened by military conflict experienced sudden demographic collapses."
Which of the following inferences regarding the twelfth-century BCE inland urban centers is most strictly supported by the passage?
- The demographic collapse observed in these inland settlements occurred independently of any physical destruction wrought by military conflict.Cevap
- BThese inland settlements possessed significantly larger domestic storage capacity than coastal settlements, enabling them to withstand military sieges.
- CEarly twentieth-century archaeologists dogmatically fabricated their military collapse theories out of an explicit hostility toward environmental science.
- DThe violent destruction horizons recorded at coastal sites were the direct cause of the agricultural yield failures identified in inland storage pits.
- EEarly twentieth-century archaeologists maintained that agricultural failure was the primary catalyst driving external sea-raiders to target inland cities.