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 article and the lecture are both about the eleven century European silver coin, which was found in the Native American archeological site. The author presents three theories about why the coin could not have brought by Norse to North America. The lecture disputes that claims made in the article. His position is that they are all incorrect.
According to the reading the location of finding is of great distance from of the Norse actual settlement, which is eastern side of Canada. The article mentions that, the distance between these two locations is thousands of kilometers, which bolster the assumption that the coins have no relation with the actual settlement of notes. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that the North American travel vast area, furthermore they also collect object from far reach places. Additionally, she pointed out that, they could have come in contact with the Norse as a result they brought back the silver coins with them.
Secondly, the author suggests that, no European silver coins were discovered in the Norse original settlement site. The lecturer however asserts that, since the Norse were not the native people of America, they return with all their valuables back to their mother land including the valuable object they brought them in the first place. She goes on to say that, during their retune, they return with all their possessions including silver coins since they were of great value to the Europeans.
Finally, the author points that; North American people did not value the silver coins due to which the coins were useless to them. He contends that, the natives have different monetary value and silver coin was not one of them. In contrast, the lecture’s stance is native people of America valued objects that were very attractive and objects with unusual characteristics. He notes that, silver coins could have been integrated part of their ornaments. Furthermore due to its beauty the coins could have been used in the process of transection between Norse and Native American.
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Suggestion: Furthermore,
...een integrated part of their ornaments. Furthermore due to its beauty the coins could have ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, as a result, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1729.0 1373.03311258 126% => OK
No of words: 338.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11538461538 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43200485122 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479289940828 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 520.2 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8809875069 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.705882353 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8823529412 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70588235294 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.236311786091 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0889450798103 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0783745328852 0.0662205650399 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164967042625 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659842284528 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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