Questões de Concurso

Before LiDAR surveys became available, archaeologists were largely restricted to investigating areas in which the forest had already been cleared. The article links this methodological limitation to an interpretation of ancient settlement patterns that is now being reconsidered.

Which inference is supported by this relationship?

(a)

LiDAR changed archaeological chronology by demonstrating that the Aquiry civilization existed substantially earlier than previously believed.

(b)

Archaeologists deliberately excluded densely forested regions because they assumed that human occupation was environmentally impossible there.

(c)

The earlier interpretation may have been influenced by the unequal visibility of archaeological evidence in deforested and densely forested areas.

(d)

Deforested regions contained older archaeological remains than forested regions and therefore received greater scholarly attention.

(e)

Previous researchers had already identified most Amazonian settlements but underestimated their populations because they lacked demographic statistics.