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Problem · Obstacles to studying ancient textiles

Traditional sources (archaeological remains and texts) don't sufficiently cover textiles. Textiles are destroyed over time. The textiles that have survived were usually discarded as useless.

Success in learning about textiles · Researchers have overcome the obstacles

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How obstacles were overcome · Tech advances and change in philosophy of archaeology

New methods such as radiocarbon dating, infrared photography, and isotope "fingerprinting" can reveal more about textile materials and colors. Archaeologists now preserve all objects, even those that don't seem to have value.

Example · Dirty linen thought useless turned out to be oldest known complete garment

Additional advance · We now recreate how cloth was actually produced

This allows us to generate and check hypotheses about textiles and textile production in the past.

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Examples · Identification of loom weights, evidence that a dress adorned a small statute as opposed to a large one

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Re-creation of ancient techniques is discussed in P3. The author says that researchers used ancient production methods to do two things: confirm that certain lumps of clay were used as loom weights, and determine which of two statues an ancient dress had been made for. We should look for one of those two examples in the answer choices.

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The author doesn’t discuss any ways of investigating the meanings of such terms. She just says in her introduction that surviving texts about textiles contain these sorts of terms, and that this makes things harder for archaeologists.

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This was done using isotope “fingerprinting” (see P2), not by re-creating ancient techniques.

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The author doesn’t discuss any museum displays about cloth-making.

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The author does state in P2 that a 5,000-year-old shirt was discovered, but she doesn’t suggest that re-creation of ancient techniques played any part in that discovery. Rather, she brings up the 5,000-year-old shirt as an example of the benefits of preserving archaeological objects even when they don’t immediately seem valuable.

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Stated in P3. Ancient cloth-making techniques were re-created to determine which of two statues a certain dress had been made for.

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PrepTest 130 - Section 2 - Passage 1 - Question 3

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