LSAT 147 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q15

RC Question 15 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The purpose of the passage is to give an alternate hypothesis explaining the origin of woodland clearings in Mesolithic Europe.

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1. This doesn’t mention woodland clearings!
2. CORRECT. This is a good summary. The non-economic model = fear of wilderness leading to paths, which led to clearings. Resource-procurement = increasing grazing land so as to make good hunting.
3. The author is clear that archaeological evidence is limited. See lines 8-9 and 18-20. Those refer to archaeological evidence for the resource model. There also is none for the author’s model, otherwise they would have cited it.
4. This answer mixes together two unrelated lines. The plant record is mentioned in lines 10-12. The hypothesis that Mesolithic humans moved using paths is introduced in lines 39-41. The author never links these two areas of the passage.
5. This contradicts the passage. Ethnography is circumstantial. See lines 8-9 and 18-20.