Practice question · Multiple choice
Hunting magic, shamanism and information storage have all been proposed for cave art. Why has finding more caves not settled between them?
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- Ask what each theory FORBIDS, not what it allows.
- What would a cave have to contain to rule one of them out?
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C. Because all three predict the same physical evidence
Why
A hypothesis is tested only by evidence it predicts differently from its rivals. These three do not, which is why the argument runs on ethnographic analogy and neuropsychology instead of on excavation.
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