PASSAGE:
" Until recently, many anthropologists assumed that the environment of what is now the southwestern United States shaped the social history and culture of the region’s indigenous peoples. Building on this assumption, archaeologists asserted that adverse environmental conditions and droughts were responsible for the disappearances and migrations of southwestern populations from many sites they once inhabited. "
Which of the following findings would most strongly support the assertion made by the archaeologists (Highlighted)?
A. A population remained in a certain region at least a century after erosion wore away much of the topsoil that sustained grass for their grazing animals.
B. The range of a certain group’s agricultural activity increased over a century of gradual decrease in annual rainfall.
C. As winters grew increasingly mild in a certain region, the nomadic residents of the region continued to move between their summer and winter encampments.
D. An agricultural population began to trade for supplies of a grain instead of producing the grain in its own fields as it had in the past.
E. A half century of drought and falling groundwater levels caused a certain population to abandon their settlements along a riverbank.
In such CR questions, we can not really apply ONE WORD ELIMINATION by gregmat, as we do with other INFERENCE/DETAIL/AUTHOR PURPOSE questions right?
because CR question question in RC mostly bring outside content definitely, to support/undermine the reasoning. Of course , We could eliminate keeping assumption in mind so anything should be attacking or supporting the assumption but just reading especially a word in eliminating in CR question of RC , Could go wrong right?
let me know if my reasoning is correct