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.
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.
Examples ·Identification of loom weights, evidence that a dress adorned a small statute as opposed to a large one
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
5.
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Question Type
Implied
Purpose of passage
To sum up the function or purpose of the passage, we should look to our low-res summary. The passage describes a problem and presents the ways in which that problem is being overcome.
a
a defense of ███ █████████████ ███████ ███████ ██ ███████ ███████████ ██ █ ██████████ ██████████
Descriptively inaccurate. No methods are presented as controversial.
b
a set of ███████████████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████████ ██ █ ██████████ █████ ██ ███████
Descriptively inaccurate. No recommendations are made. The author is presenting existing solutions that are already being put into practice. She approves of those solutions, but she never crosses over into making recommendations about what should be done in future.
c
an account of ███ █ ██████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ███ ████████████ █████ ████ ███████ ████████████
This is a good low-res summary of the passage. It’s an account of how archaeological research into ancient textiles has successfully coped with the difficulties presented by limited evidence.
d
a rejection of ████ ████████ ████ █████ █████ ███ █████████████ ██ █ ███████ ██████████
Descriptively inaccurate. The author doesn’t reject any commonly held views. This isn’t a Critique-style passage. The author just comments in P2 that the methodologies of archaeology have improved over time, without commenting on or criticizing anyone’s views of those methodologies.
e
a summary of ███ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███████████ ███ ████ ████ ██████████ ███████ ██ █████████████
The author does present two hypotheses in P3, but her purpose in writing the passage isn’t just to make us aware of those two hypotheses. She uses them as examples to argue a point: these innovative methods of testing hypotheses have—along with the methods noted in P2—been successful at overcoming limitations in the available evidence. This is what (C) describes.
Difficulty
90% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%133
142
75%151
Analysis
Implied
Purpose of passage
Problem-analysis
Science
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
0%
154
b
1%
157
c
90%
165
d
1%
154
e
7%
155
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