Passage Discussion

[ca_teran1]

Hello
Question on 21 to me most is too strong in choice c
I choose e

Question 22 to me e was better

Question25 how is it b and not c

How would you diagram scale this passage?

Thanks

[ohthatpatrick]

Hey, there.

I'm going to break up your other questions about specific problems into new posts (to fit our usual format), so the one under Passage Discussion will only pertain to discussing the scale/ passage map.

You can find answers to the other questions under their specific numbers.

The Scale of this passage is foreshadowed in the very first sentence.

Whenever RC passages say something was "typically thought of" / "commonly assumed", etc., the passage will almost always present a contrasting notion.

Our first sentence here gives us "Prehistoric humans = confident, clever hunter-gatherers" has long dominated anthropology.

Line 23 refers to this again as the traditional hypothesis.

The rest of the passage goes on to discuss recent developments that suggest otherwise.

So the scale would be

Side A: Early hominids were clever hunter-gatherers who outsmarted predators and got their meat through hunting

Side B: Early hominids were scavengers of meat, not hunters of live prey.

PASSAGE MAP
P1 - Summary of traditional view ... reasons for why that view came to prominence ... what that view fails to consider

P2 - Intro to taphonomy, which apparently calls traditional view into question.

P3 - Specific findings of taphonomy

P4 - What these findings suggest/mean ... traditional view seems to be wrong.

[emanmirza3]

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