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36. The recent archaeological evidence mentioned in the
35. - 37. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız. passage ----.
A) was about a discovery of a new toolkit the Clovis people
One of the most intriguing questions in American archaeology: used 20,000 years ago
Who were the earliest people in the Americas? For much B) has supported the view that the ancestors of the earliest
of the past 80 years, scholars have thought that they were Americans were forced out of Siberia
members of the Clovis culture, whose ancestors came to C) is likely to lead scientists to reconsider their opinions
North America from Siberia some 13,000 years ago. In recent regarding who the earliest Americans were
decades, however, archaeologists have come to believe that
D) suggests that the Clovis people had actually developed
people reached North America far earlier. A new discovery
an advanced tool tradition much earlier than previously
from the Gault site, in central Texas, offers robust evidence
thought
not only for a much earlier peopling of the Americas, but also
of a previously unknown tool tradition that is older and more E) was found by researchers who had long suspected that
varied than scholars ever expected. Archaeologists have the earliest Americans lived between 20,000 and 16,000
found stone tools including projectile points, blades, and flake years ago
tools at the Gault site, the oldest of which date to between
20,000 and 16,000 years ago, thousands of years older
than any of the stone spear points for which the Clovis are
known. “What we’re seeing is a well-developed toolkit,” says
Tom Williams of Texas State University. “These were clearly
people adapted to surviving in their environment.”

35. According to the passage, the Clovis culture ----. 37. What is the passage mainly about?
A) had members who had come to North America from A) Tools used by the earliest Americans
Siberia even earlier than 13,000 years ago
B) The ancestors of the Clovis people
B) was traditionally considered by scientists to be the first
C) The development of new tools by the Clovis people
people to inhabit the Americas
D) New insights about the early Americans
C) had a fierce rivalry with some even earlier cultures in the
Americas over the development of sophisticated tools E) Recent archaeological techniques to date tools
D) has shown significant differences from their ancestors in
terms of tool making practices
E) cannot be associated with people migrating from Siberia,
as previously believed by scholars

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