As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their "great houses," massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories.
One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each housing hundreds of people. Supporters of this theory have interpreted Chaco great houses as earlier versions of the architecture seen in more recent Southwest societies. In particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well-known "apartment buildings" at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries.
A second theory contends that the Chaco structures were used to store food supplies. One of the main crops of the Chaco people was grain maize, which could be stored for long periods of time without spoiling and could serve as a long-lasting supply of food. The supplies of maize had to be stored somewhere, and the size of the great houses would make them very suitable for the purpose.
A third theory proposes that houses were used as ceremonial centers. Close to one house, called Pueblo Alto, archaeologists identified an enormous mound formed by a pile of old material. Excavations of the mound revealed deposits containing a surprisingly large number of broken pots. This finding has been interpreted as evidence that people gathered at Pueblo Alto for special ceremonies. At the ceremonies, they ate festive meals and then discarded the pots in which the meals had been prepared or served. Such ceremonies have been documented for other Native American cultures.
The article and the lecture are both about Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. Author of the reading feels arcaeologist suspect that these Chaco Canyon stone buildings were used for as houses for people or store food supplies or ceremonial centers. The lecturer challengers the claims made by the author. He thinks that the use of Chaco Canyonstone building had not use for none of the them.
First of all, the author argues that Chaco structures were use as housing of hunderd of people. The article is mention that the appearance of the Chaco building are similer to the apartment buildings at Taos New Mexico. This poit is challenges by the lecturer. He claimes that if there were lot of families lived then there should be many fire places. Furthermore, he says that there are only ten fire places in one bulding.
Secondly, the author suggests that Chaco structures were use for store foods supplies. The article notes that the main crops of the chaco people was grain maiz. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He suggets that if they use this places as grain maiz storage places then there should be trays and containers.
Finally, the author states that these places were used as ceremonial centers. Moreover, the article says that there were many pots found from that place wich means that people were gatherd to this places. In contrast, the lectures position is that from the excavation they have found many constraction materials such as sand and stons. He nots that post found in this place might me because those pots were used by the people who constract this building
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, then, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1319.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88518518519 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30948720251 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492592592593 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9621201567 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.5882352941 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8823529412 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23529411765 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134061543276 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0498966073419 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531805917213 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.095858128627 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0525966381252 0.0443174109184 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.3589403974 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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