Practice question · True or false
A least-cost model is most useful to a historian when the route it predicts disagrees with the route actually taken.
Hints
- What does agreement tell you?
- Disagreement points at a non-economic reason.
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True
Why
True. Agreement merely confirms that people avoided hills. Disagreement identifies where something other than cost governed — politics, ritual, ownership, a decision taken for reasons the terrain cannot express — and that residual is the historically interesting part.
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