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 states that an Europe sliver coin dating to 11 century which found at Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States was not brought by European explorers. However, the lecturer explains that the Europe sliver coin might be brought by Norse because of the following three reasons.
First, the reading claims that because the Norse Settlements was very far away from the the Native American site in Main, the coin has no real connection with the settlements. However, the lecturer refutes this points by saying that many objects were found in the Native American site in Maine which gave a perfect explain for Norse to travelled a great distance and obtained objects with them to reach settlement.
Second, the article points out that no other coins have been found in Norse settlement in Canadian, so they did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements. In contrast, the lecturer argues that Norse did not live in North American forever. When Norse went back to Europe, they packed valuable items such as all silver coins. Therefore, there were not leave any other silver coins in North American settlements.
Third, the author notes that North America people did not understand the European Coins, so they would not be used. The professor oppose this point by explaining that European Coins were attractive due to its silver appearance, so the North Americans would like to trade them for necklace or jewelries.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, second, so, therefore, third, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1248.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 248.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03225806452 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43457577601 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532258064516 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 379.8 419.366225166 91% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.1360517916 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.8 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36333847241 0.272083759551 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144399029067 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122617238454 0.0662205650399 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219687985863 0.162205337803 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102518844252 0.0443174109184 231% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => 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: 12.19 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.