As early as the twelfth century A.D., the settlements of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in the American Southwest were notable for their “great houses,” massive stone buildings that contain hundreds of rooms and often stand three or four stories high. Archaeologists have been trying to determine how the buildings were used. While there is still no universally agreed upon explanation, there are three competing theories. One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each housing hundreds of people. Supporters of this theory have interpreted Chaco great houses as earlier versions of the architecture seen in more recent Southwest societies. In particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well-known “apartment buildings” at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries. A second theory contends that the Chaco structures were used to store food supplies. One of the main crops of the Chaco people was grain maize, which could be stored for long periods of time without spoiling and could serve as a long-lasting supply of food. The supplies of maize had to be stored somewhere, and the size of the great houses would make them very suitable for the purpose. A third theory proposes that houses were used as ceremonial centers. Close to one house, called Pueblo Alto, archaeologists identified an enormous mound formed by a pile of old material. Excavations of the mound revealed deposits containing a surprisingly large number of broken pots. This finding has been interpreted as evidence that people gathered at Pueblo Alto for special ceremonies. At the ceremonies, they ate festive meals and
then discarded the pots in which the meals had been prepared or served. Such ceremonies have been documented for other Native American cultures
The reading and the conversation both are about the uses of stone buildings. The writing proposes three suggestion regarding the uses of the building. The lecturer challenges this three provided theory by giving proper evidence.Furthermore the lecturer states that none of the theories are correct.
First of all, The author suggest that the building were intially used for residential purpose by the new mexican people. it is mentioned that they lookalike to apartment buildings. The person in the conversation rejects this claim by stating that the building cannot be residential place as it does not have enough fireplaces. Moreover it is mentioned that the fire places found in the archaeological site provides evidence that only around lived in the place. Therefore lecturer dismisses the suggestion of buildings used for residential area
Secondly, the arguments states that the buildings were used for storage purposes they further explain this theory by stating that the green maize prevalent at that time had to be stored somewhere and they say it was stored in large halls at that time.The lectures disagree this claims by providing evidence which puts forth point that the green maize evidence were never found in the particular region further elaborating this point they did not find any containers in that regions and hence refutes the claim.
Finally, the text gives a third proposal which mentions that the buildings were used for ceremonial purposes also gives examples saying they used it perform to ceremonial rituals and then threw the pots to trash.The lectures refutes the claim of using the hall for ceremonial purposes by stating that they also found many other artificates with the pots, they also found construction materials such as sand and pots and thus makes the proposal seem fallacious.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, look, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thus, such as, first of all
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 : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 291.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29896907216 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73116113624 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525773195876 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 180.929083713 49.2860985944 367% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 171.333333333 110.228320801 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.3333333333 21.698381199 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 16.2222222222 7.06452816374 230% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 4.19205298013 262% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.0777561251815 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.035214056371 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0304216091508 0.0662205650399 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0509011268156 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0135383145986 0.0443174109184 31% => 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: 19.7 13.3589403974 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 53.8541721854 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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