Diagnostic Test 1 Practice Test
•138 QuestionsAn archaeologist studying Island X argues that its settlement occurred through multiple migration waves rather than a single founding event. Variation in pottery styles and tool types suggests cultural diversity, but the scholar maintains that trade can mimic such diversity without implying separate migrations. More decisive evidence would triangulate stratigraphy and genetics: separate burial layers with distinct material cultures, paired with ancient DNA revealing discontinuous ancestries, would indicate successive arrivals. The scholar notes that linguistic diversity recorded in recent historical periods cannot settle the question of much earlier population history. By contrast, well-dated skeletal remains from different phases could reveal whether later groups replaced, absorbed, or coexisted with earlier inhabitants, providing a clear test of the multi-wave hypothesis.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the scholar's claim?
An archaeologist studying Island X argues that its settlement occurred through multiple migration waves rather than a single founding event. Variation in pottery styles and tool types suggests cultural diversity, but the scholar maintains that trade can mimic such diversity without implying separate migrations. More decisive evidence would triangulate stratigraphy and genetics: separate burial layers with distinct material cultures, paired with ancient DNA revealing discontinuous ancestries, would indicate successive arrivals. The scholar notes that linguistic diversity recorded in recent historical periods cannot settle the question of much earlier population history. By contrast, well-dated skeletal remains from different phases could reveal whether later groups replaced, absorbed, or coexisted with earlier inhabitants, providing a clear test of the multi-wave hypothesis.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the scholar's claim?