The first trenches that were cut into a 500_acre site at Tell Hamoukar,Syria,have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complexsocieties in northen regins of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously withbut independently of the celebrated city_states of southern Mesopotamia ,in what is now southern Iraq.

A:错在何处? with but 是什么用法?

with but应该是说同时崛起但是互相独立的意思.

建议lz把选项都贴出来看看哦!