Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Traditional sources of evidence about ancient history are archaeologic

Answer option(E) covers only a small portion of the passage.

It would be wise to approach this question like you would a Main Point question: what was the author's primary goal/purpose in this passage?

The main point of the passage (the Most Valuable Sentence, as I call it), is lines14-18.

Like most passages, this one begins with background info and then uses a but/yet/however/recently to pivot into the primary focus.

So lines14-18 give us the wording
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