Question

Text 1
Recent satellite imagery of the Amazon basin has identified the remains of several large, interconnected settlements, challenging the old belief that the area was sparsely populated in pre-Columbian times. These findings indicate a highly complex, agrarian society existed long before European contact, featuring raised fields and causeways.
Text 2
While some archaeologists are just beginning to use remote sensing, others have pointed to early 20th-century aerial photographs and ground-level pottery shards as initial evidence of complex, large-scale settlements in the Amazon. Recent technology merely provides clearer visuals of patterns already documented by specialized, smaller-scale digs decades ago.
Based on the two texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely characterize the "new" findings in Text 1?
A. As revolutionary, because they completely disprove the idea that the Amazon was sparsely populated.
B. As overstated, since similar evidence was already documented by ground-level researchers.
C. As consistent with existing, but underappreciated, research findings.
D. As unreliable, because they rely on technology rather than physical excavation.

Answer 1

B. As overstated, since similar evidence was already documented by ground-level researchers.

Text 2 emphasizes that earlier aerial photos and pottery finds already indicated large settlements and that new remote-sensing simply makes those previously documented patterns clearer rather than overturning prior knowledge.