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 professor cast doubt on the idea shown in the passage that the discovered coin was fake and provided three explanations in the lecture.
Firstly, according to the passage, the archaeological site is so far away from the settlements. The professor argued that the norse could travel quite far away from within america and then brought back something valuable. that also happened to other things as some other historical research indicated.
Secondly, the passage states that there were no other coins found at the site. However, the professor pointed out that the norse settlements were not permanent. When they were about to go back to Europa, they would pack up their valuable belongings, which included the silver coins. that is why no other coins have been found.
Thirdly, although silver coins were not recognized as money in North america, the professor demonstrated that they would be valued due to the appealing beauty. For example, they would be used to decorate jewelry.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: That
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...gings, which included the silver coins. that is why no other coins have been found. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 17.0 30.3222958057 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 866.0 1373.03311258 63% => OK
No of words: 161.0 270.72406181 59% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37888198758 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 4.04702891845 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59527752904 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 145.348785872 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.639751552795 0.540411800872 118% => OK
syllable_count: 251.1 419.366225166 60% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
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: 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: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.8519176614 49.2860985944 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.6 110.228320801 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.6 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156588528595 0.272083759551 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06131012856 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550146478776 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0889111613857 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218751694218 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 63.6247240618 63% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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