Practice question · Multiple choice
Why does an immovable grinding mortar tell an archaeologist about intentions rather than about diet?
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- Mobile people do not own furniture they cannot carry.
- The weight is the message.
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B. They did not intend to leave the place
Why
A tool too heavy to carry is a statement about staying. This is inference at its most elegant: the object’s mass, not its function, carries the historical information.
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