Questões de Concurso

The article begins with the discovery of evidence for a large pre-Columbian population and subsequently explains the technological and archaeological basis for revising previous assumptions about Amazonia. The final paragraphs expand the implications of the findings beyond the particular region investigated.

Which statement represents the central argument developed throughout the text?

(a)

Archaeological investigations have confirmed that dense areas of Amazon rainforest were systematically abandoned because early inhabitants preferred deforested regions.

(b)

New technologies have rendered conventional archaeological investigation unnecessary because remote sensing can reconstruct ancient societies without additional research.

(c)

Archaeological evidence obtained through LiDAR suggests that parts of ancient Amazonia were considerably more populated and extensively modified by human societies than scholars had previously assumed.

(d)

Archaeologists have established that the entire Amazon rainforest was occupied by a single civilization numbering approximately three million people until the ninth century CE.

(e)

LiDAR has demonstrated that geometric earthworks were primarily agricultural constructions created to support domesticated fruit and nut species.