people who inhabited the Four Corners area of what
is now southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona,
southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico
for a 2,000-year period from about 700 B.C . to the
arrival of the Spanish in the Southwest in the 1500's.
The Anasazi were the ancestors of the modern-day
Pueblo people of the southwestern United States.
Five cultural signatures enable archaeologists
to determine what is Anasazi. First is the kiva---a
generally circular, underground structure used for
gatherings of kin groups. The kiva belongs to the
Anasazi and is not found anywhere else. Second
is the unit pueblo. This building unit, made up of a
room block of two to twelve rooms and a plaza or
workplace containing a kiva, formed a modular unit of
standardized design that was multiplied to form larger
settlements---whether in the cliffs or in the open.
The third cultural signature is the orientation of
kivas and unit pueblos facing toward the south and
southeast. The fourth is the characteristic Anasazi
gray-and-white pottery and the utility pottery with a
corrugated exterior. The Anasazi fired the pottery
in a nonoxidizing atmosphere (a fire smothered to
reduce available oxygen), producing the gray-and-
white-colored ceramics. Many Anasazi pots were
decorated with black paint, producing the distinctive
black-on-white pottery style.
Fifth, the Anasazi in all areas followed a
characteristic pattern of burials. The bodies were
buried lying on the side with legs flexed against the
chest and heads oriented directionally --- often toward
the east ---or parallel to the slope if the grave was on
steep terrain.
These five characteristics are peculiarly
Anasazi and were not shared by the other
neighboring cultures. By matching these hallmarks
to the discovered ruins, it has been possible to
delineate prehistoric Anasaziland for some 2,000
years. A chronological framework has divided
the history of the Anasazi into three Basket Maker
stages and six Pueblo stages.
73. According to the passage, one of
the characteristics of Anasazi burials
was that bodies were buried
A.flat on the back
B.with the knees bent to the chest
C.in special burial grounds
D.parallel to each other
我手邊的答案是B
想請教一下,感覺文中紅字的部份意思跟B不大一樣耶,文中說的是腳往後折背離胸膛,B的意思是說屈膝讓膝蓋彎向胸膛,感覺是兩種不同的姿勢,是不是我誤解意思了?謝謝
