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Archaeologists excavating a 3,000-year-old inland settlement recovered large quantities of bones from deep-sea fish species. The site, however, shows no evidence of boats capable of open-ocean travel, and the nearest waters deep enough to yield such fish lie more than a hundred kilometers away. The presence of these bones therefore suggests that the settlement's inhabitants ______.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• A.

  preferred deep-sea fish to the freshwater species available closer to home.

• B.

  obtained the fish through trade with coastal or seafaring communities.

• C.

  had largely abandoned fishing in favor of agriculture by this period.

• D.

  had deliberately built the settlement near deep-sea fishing grounds.