As you can see, the entities in the list are a bit longer than usual. Moreover, the first entity has another list embedded in it (mud or clay). So a comma is put before the “and” for a breathing pause.
So the comma before "and" is only to help us in identifying the main list.
Note that the presence of a “comma + and” in a sentence doesn’t necessarily indicate that two or more Independent Clauses are connected. (The above sentence, for instance)
Krech also contradicts Martin's exclusion of climatic change as an explanation by asserting that widespread climatic change did indeed occur at the end of the Pleistocene.
仍然是exclusion没有看到,排除,错选两题
Krech also contradicts Martin's exclusion of climatic change as an explanation by asserting that widespread climatic change did indeed occur at the end of the Pleistocene.
关键词:exclusion排除,看的关键句不仔细
But equally important to Hopi cultural persistence may have been an inherent flexibility in their social system that may have allowed preservation of traditions even as the Hopis accommodated themselves to change.
Within the United States prior to 1920, for example, only less urbanized states had granted women suffrage.
只有不是城市化最高的地区才有了woman suffrage, less修饰urbanized
it was not until the latter half, 不一定用they