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ID: LSAT-LR-010
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Medium

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Two explanations are offered for the abandonment of the hill settlements: that the soil was exhausted, and that the trade routes shifted to the coast. The soil evidence is ambiguous, since the same pollen record is consistent with exhaustion and with a deliberate change of crop. But the coastal warehouses were built in precisely the decades the hill settlements emptied, and the goods stored in them are the goods those settlements had traded.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AThe soil of the hill settlements was not exhausted, since the pollen record fits a deliberate change of crop.

BThe coastal warehouses were built by the people who had left the hill settlements, and were stocked with the goods those settlements had traded in the decades before they emptied.

CThe pollen record from the hill settlements cannot distinguish soil exhaustion from a deliberate change of crop, which is why that explanation is set aside.

DArchaeological evidence is more reliable than evidence drawn from pollen records, at least where the dating of a change is at issue.

EThe shift of trade to the coast explains the abandonment of the hill settlements better than soil exhaustion does.

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