LSAT 103 – Section 1 – Question 07

LSAT 103 - Section 1 - Question 07

September 1998

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159
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158
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The cumbersome spears that were the principal weapons used by certain tribes in the early Bronze Age precluded widespread casualties during intertribal conflicts. But the comparatively high number of warrior tombs found in recent excavations of the same tribes’ late Bronze Age settlements indicates that in the late Bronze Age, wars between these tribes were frequent, and the casualty rate was high. Hence some archaeologists claim that by the late Bronze Age, these tribes had developed new methods of warfare designed to inflict many casualties.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The archaeologists conclude that certain tribes had developed methods of warfare designed to maximize casualties by the late Bronze Age. Their evidence is that there are comparatively more warrior tombs from the late Bronze Age than from the early Bronze Age.

Notable Assumptions
The archaeologists assume that the tribes in question weren’t more likely to build warrior tombs in the late Bronze Age than the early Bronze Age for reasons other than the number of casualties. If these tribes only built tombs for warriors of a certain class in the early Bronze Age, then perhaps all the later tombs signify is a more egalitarian society. The archaeologists also assume that the tribes were not far more populous in the later Bronze Age than in the early Bronze Age, which would also explain the comparative number of warrior tombs.

A
A royal tomb dating to the early Bronze Age contained pottery depicting battle scenes in which warriors use spears.
We already know warriors used spears in the early Bronze Age. We’re looking for support for the claim they used different weapons in the late Bronze Age.
B
There is evidence that many buildings dating to the late Bronze Age were built by prisoners of war taken in battles between enemy tribes.
We have no idea if the same phenomenon was happening during the early Bronze Age. We can imagine the tribes took prisoners in battle during every era, simply for the labor.
C
Scenes of violent warfare, painted in bright hues, frequently appear on pottery that has been found in some early Bronze Age tombs of warriors.
We already know there was warfare in the early Bronze Age. We’re looking for support for the claim they used different weapons in the late Bronze Age.
D
Some tombs of warriors dating to the late Bronze Age contain armor and weapons that anthropologists believe were trophies taken from enemies in battle.
Were the armor and weapons advancements over what these tribes had in the early Bronze Age? We don’t know.
E
The marks on the bones of many of the late Bronze Age warriors whose tombs were excavated are consistent with the kind of wounds inflicted by arrowheads also found in many late Bronze Age settlements.
Arrowheads aren’t spears. These warriors seemed to be killed or injured in battle with new kinds of weaponry that we can be certain these tribes had in the late Bronze Age, but which they didn’t have in the early Bronze Age.

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