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NO.908
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Data on modern and historic peasant communities suggest that individuals and communities specialize in ceramic production for trade primarily to offset subsistence shortfalls arising from inadequate or insufficient agricultural land. Harry investigated whether this correlation of ceramic specialization with agricultural marginality occurred among prehistoric inhabitants of the American Southwest. At Arizona’s West Branch site, occupied A.D.900-1100, abundant pottery manufacturing materials suggest villagewide ceramic production in excess of that needed for household purposes. Harry points out, however, that if West Branch residents exchanged pots for food, one would expect the villages with which they traded to have produced more consistent food surpluses than West Branch did. In fact, the West Branch village appears to have been located in an area with better agricultural conditions than those of the pottery-consuming settlements.
The final sentence of the passage primarily serves to do which of the following?
Cite a particular factor that may have influenced the decision to settle the West Branch site
Identify a possible reason why the inhabitants of the West Branch site may have specialized in the manufacture of ceramics
Suggest that inhabitants of the West Branch site may have had agricultural surpluses to use for trade with other settlements in the region
Present evidence to support a claim that the West Branch site was not a pottery consuming settlement
Cite one reason to doubt that the ceramic specialization at the West Branch site served to offset subsistence shortfalls
Select one answer choice.
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