The cave paintings of Lascaux (in southwestern France) date to around 15,000 B.C.E. and are among the finest examples of prehistoric art known. Ever since the paintings were discovered, scholars have puzzled over their purpose. According to one widely discussed interpretation, the paintings were made to ensure a successful hunt. Several considerations support this view.
In the first place, there is the animal subject matter of the paintings. The cave images are almost exclusively of large mammals. These animals include bison, wild horses, and now-extinct aurochs (wild cattle), which are known to have been hunted by the Paleolithic people who created the paintings. A number of the animals are shown wounded by arrows and spears. There are also depictions of what appears to be the seasonal migrations of these animals that would have been very important to prehistoric hunters.
Second, the depictions of humans in the cave paintings include human figures that appear to have animal heads. These could be hunters: hunters in some traditional cultures are known to disguise themselves with animal heads so that they are not recognized by the animals they are hunting.
Third, many cultures hold the belief that by depicting an event one can bring about its reality. Throughout history – prehistoric, ancient, and modern – images have been regarded as more than mere decorative representations; they are seen as having magical power to affect reality. Thus, it is reasonable to suppose that the hunters who created the Lascaux cave paintings believed that by painting successful hunts, they were ensuring that real hunts would be successful.
The article states that the cave paintings found in Lascaux were made to ensure successful hunts and depicts three reasons for this notion. However, the professor argues against this point explaining that the reasonings stated in the passage do little to support this view and the real purpose of these drawings are yet to be discovered.
First, the article claims that the paintings depict large mammals, some of which are wounded by arrows and spears. The professor refutes this point stating that most of the animals weren't wounded or hit by arrows and spears and a great number of the animals in the paintings like cats and rhinos were not hunted by humans. Plus reindeers that are considered the most hunted animals in the past are not even drawn.
Second, the reading posits that there are drawings of humans with animal heads in the painting, which depicts hunters wearing animal masks to comouflage themselves. The professor renounces this statement pointing out that the humans in the painting were not drawn with a hunters posture and were painted in a horizental and sleep like position. In addition no object that pointed to hunting was drawn around them.
Third, the author states that the people believed that depicting an event has magical effects and what is drawn will become reality; hence by painting successful hunts they would succeed as well. Nevertheless, the professor explains that ancient people believed that the spirit of their ancestors live on in animals and by doing a ceremoney that used paintings of such animals they can communicate with their ancestors. Therefore, these drawings may contribute to such ceremonies.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 181, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
... point stating that most of the animals werent wounded or hit by arrows and spears and...
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Line 3, column 349, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: addition,
... horizental and sleep like position. In addition no object that pointed to hunting was d...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, third, well, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1382.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09963099631 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44600185386 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557195571956 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3272757148 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.636363636 110.228320801 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6363636364 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.54545454545 7.06452816374 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.118575919754 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0478847106475 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436496518827 0.0662205650399 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.075966287231 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0103084017624 0.0443174109184 23% => 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: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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