Archaeologist: researchers excavating a burial site in cyprus found a feline skeleton lying near a human skeleton. both skeletons were in the same sediment at the same depth and equally well-preserved, suggesting that the feline and human were buried together about 9,500 years ago. this shows that felines were domesticated around the time farming began, when they would have been useful in protecting stores of grain from mice.
which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the archaeologist’s argument?

(a) archaeologists have not found any remains of stores of grain in the immediate vicinity of the burial site.
(b) the burial site in cyprus is substantially older than any other known burial site in which a feline skeleton and a human skeleton appear to have been buried together.
(c) paintings found near the burial site seem to show people keeping felines as domestic companions, but do not show felines hunting mice.
(d) in cyprus, there are many burial sites dating from around 9,500 years ago in which the remains of wild animals appear to have been buried alongside human remains.
(e) before felines were domesticated, early farmers had no effective way to protect stores of grain from mice.

In the excercise: Archaeologist: Researchers excavating a burial site in Cyprus found a feline skeleton lying near a human skeleton. Both skeletons were in the same sediment at the same depth and equally well-preserved, suggesting that the feline and human were buried together about 9,500 years ago. This shows that felines were domesticated around the time farming began, when they would have been useful in protecting stores of grain from mice.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the archaeologist’s argument? The anser that would weaken the archaeologist's argument is D)In Cyprus, there are many burial sites dating from around 9,500 years ago in which the remains of wild animals appear to have been buried alongside human remains.

Explanation:

This is a very complicated question if we go to the data, but if we recall the evidence we have in this text we can find the next situation: First of all, The text says that around 9500 years ago the bones of human and feline were buried in the same sites, and this fact is used to support a hypothesis of feline domestication. However, if we observe option D) it says that there have been foundings of wild animal bones buried with human remains surrounding 9500 years of the events. So, if we compare both we can't use the fact that because they were buried in the same places they were domesticated and it weakens the hypothesis.

d. i assume the underlined word is "role." reformat if it isn't.

explanation:

role is closest to part because when replacing words, "playing a vital decision," "playing a vital activity," and "playing a vital dollar" don't make logical sense. the only meaningful choice is "playing a vital part."

this fits one of merriam-webster's definitions of role: "a function or part performed especially in a particular operation or process."