As Investigators Came to Recognize Considerable Continuities Between the Unknown

As investigators came to recognize considerable continuities between the unknown prehistoric past and the Native American population of the historic period,

A) scholars saw that living Native Americans were relevant to the interpretation of archaeological remains.
B) the differences between European and American archaeology disappeared.
C) speculation arose that Native Americans were one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
D) the study of American Indians was no longer an important domain in Western scholarship.