Questões de Concurso

Read the excerpt below:

"Underlying this chronology, however, are two basic problems: First, who are the Japanese, and where did they come from? Second, how do the Japanese or 'proto-Japanese' relate to the Ainu [...]?"

According to the excerpt and the organization of the first paragraph, it is CORRECT to state that the text:

(a)

Defines the Ainu as the direct ancestors of all modern Japanese, eliminating doubts about ethnic, cultural and linguistic continuity.

(b)

Presents chronology as a settled classification, but immediately indicates that such classification is connected to unresolved questions about origin, identity and cultural relationship.

(c)

Rejects archaeological periodization because the existence of the Ainu makes any chronological division impossible.

(d)

States that Japanese archaeologists classify ancient history only according to racial differences among early populations.