Widespread domestication of animals did not occur in East Asia until

Widespread domestication of animals did not occur in East Asia until after agriculture had replaced hunting and gathering as the predominant way of life. New archeological premise indicates that animals such as goats and sheep were domesticated in the Middle East and Southwest Asia thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Therefore, there is sufficient premise to conclude that agriculture replaced hunting and gathering earlier than previously thought in these regions.

The author employs which of the following methods to make his argument?

A. reconciling several seemingly contradictory pieces of premise with a single hypothesis
B. forming a reinterpretation of premise once used to support one theory in order to support another
C. drawing a conclusion about an unknown phenomenon by making a comparison to a known phenomenon
D. speculating about how animal domestication processes in East Asia may have been influenced by those in Southwest Asia and the Middle East
E. pointing out some key differences between the civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia and those of East Asia.