If some artifacts recovered from excavations of the settlement of Kuulo Kataa, in modern Ghana, date from the thirteenth century CE, that may lend credence to claims that the settlement was founded before or around that time. There is other evidence, however, strongly supporting a fourteenth century CE founding date for Kuulo Kataa. If both the artifact dates and the fourteenth century CE founding date are correct, that would imply that ________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

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the artifacts originated elsewhere and eventually reached Kuulo Kataa through trade or migration.

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artifacts from the fourteenth century CE are more commonly recovered than are artifacts from the thirteenth century CE.

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Kuulo Kataa was founded by people from a different region than had previously been assumed.

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excavations at Kuulo Kataa may have inadvertently damaged some artifacts dating to the fourteenth century CE.