Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument seems to be cohesive in the first glance. But crucial evidences that could cement the claim are lacking.
First of all, just because we find an item at a place does not necessarily guarantee that it was made there. Trade and Business is all about transporting the goods manufactured at a few locations and making sure that customers have access to the products no matter how far they are from the manufacturing facility. So maybe the woven baskets ended up in Palea from another place that we are not aware of yet.
Archaeology tries to make conclusions based on the latest and most crucial evidences available. So we never know if we are missing a piece of the puzzle until we discover one in the future. Also thinking that the Brim River, that is now very deep and broad, must have been very deep and broad during the ancient times as well is not backed by evidence. This opinion could be strengthened by studying the landscape and the geological changes that the place might have undergone since the ancient times. Had the river been shallow and narrow, the prospect of needing boats is out of the equation. These baskets could have been transported in small ferries.
Even if we go along the assumption of Paleans to have used boats, these were prehistoric times and probably, these boats were made of organic materials. And, organic materials like wood are prone to faster decaying and cannot stand the test of time. The term 'Palean Boats' is a source of uncertainty as well. There is no mention of what qualifies as a Palean Boat
Evidence on the geographical and geological data of this place could reveal the changes that this place went through. Further probing into the culture and traditions of people in this location could reveal traces of existing practices connected to ancient basket weaving techniques. Lithos, being an ancient village is far younger than the prehistoric village of Palea. So it maybe that some natural diaster washed away Palea and the survivors set camp on the other side of the river to give rise to Lithos
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, then, well, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1703.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 357.0 442.535393258 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77030812325 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48655258656 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577030812325 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1480743537 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.6111111111 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05555555556 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160165530621 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0472433029218 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515901200423 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0733579611986 0.150359130593 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431889064131 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.1392134831 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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