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.
No Use for European Coins
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver 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 and the lecture are both about european silver which found in United states in eighteenth century by european explorers. The author of the reading feels that the some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. he is of the opinion that that coin which found in north America is historical fake.
To begin with, the author of the argues that it was discovered in the distance between Maine site and north settlements in canada is more than a thousand kilometers. The article mentions that coin has no real connection with the settlements. this specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. he claims that in canada discovered not just coins, but the other things too. Additionally, he says that european explorers traveled great distance and they were interested in reaching some metals.
Secondly, the writer suggests that found no more coins at the Canadian sites. In the article, it is said that Norse did not bring any coin. however, the lecturer rebuts this by mentioning that archaeologists did not create some coins. he elaborates on this bringing up the point that when explorers had returned to their country, they must take the coin, however, they did not take it.
Finally, the author posits that north americans understood that silver coins most likely to be useless. Moreover, in the article it is stated that Native americans did not recognize it as real money. In contrast, north americans value attractive unusual objects and they used in nucleuses. he notes that they took and started to trade with them.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1367.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08178438662 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62525659602 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546468401487 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 414.9 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
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: 32.467391147 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.4117647059 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8235294118 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 4.19205298013 310% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268014241486 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740978820695 0.0996497079465 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568141950763 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151465777934 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406712312895 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => 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: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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