In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Sitver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money.
The reading passage explains that there are some evidence which there are not any coin from the Norse dates in the North America. And it, for this argument ,brings some reasons. However, the lecture casts doubt on this view.
The speaker says that it is possible that the European coin be founded for away of the North America and this had been for the Norse settlement. Because the native Americans traveled to far away of their settlement to the North to find somethings. Furthermore, there are a lot of different remarkable objects,which are around the north of America, that it was also far from the natives but they are founded.
The lecturer also refutes that the readings claim' s that there are not any other coin at the north so this coins are fake. She says that since the climate situation at the north had been so bad,so the native Americans did not have any settlement there but they were at the north and when the Europeans went to their places they traded whit that coins and after that the european also take back them to their counties.
The lecture also is not convinced by the argument of the reading about the not recognition of coins by the native Americans and claims that when they had a lot of design objects like necklects and jeliveary, so as the silver European coins was very attractive and appealing, so it is very intangible that they could recognize them and want them.
Finally, the speaker discusses that it is very feasible that the coin which is Found in North American have been from the native Americans for 1000 years ago.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1295.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67509025271 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32506109784 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458483754513 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.4791779587 49.2860985944 186% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.5 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7 21.698381199 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290621447079 0.272083759551 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119034597772 0.0996497079465 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692167444649 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169294488564 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500409795121 0.0443174109184 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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