GMATNinja
Hm, they found waterlogged latex balls in Mesoamerica from 900-400 b.c.?!? Wow, the 2018
OG is more interesting than I expected. (My copy of it is looking at me right now. I've barely had time to open it.

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TheMechanic
Eliminating option D took a while. Besides D being wordier than A, is there any thing else in D which renders it incorrect?
I think we could also argue that (D) doesn't really convey the meaning of the sentence as clearly as (A). In each answer choice, what is it that "attests to the fact that the Mesoamerican ballgame was well established..."? In (A), it's the waterlogged balls themselves and the representations of the ballplayers that give us information about the ballgame -- and that makes a lot of sense. In (D), it's "the finding" (of the balls) and "the painting" (of the representations) that tells us about the history of the ballgame -- and that makes much less sense to me.
I'm not 100% sure that (D) would be absolutely wrong in isolation, but it conveys the meaning much less clearly than (A).
I hope this helps!
GMATNinja and Experts
Hello Sir,
(D) the finding of waterlogged latex balls at El Manati and the painting of representations of
ballplayers on ceramics found at San Lorenzo attests
In choice D, it seems that
ballplayers on ceramics don't make any sense, do it? One more thing: should it be ''painting of representations'' or ''painting of ballplayers''?
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