Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Cultural identity of the civilizations that preceded us are present in parts and pieces that we must find. It’s our job to use these pieces to complete the jigsaw and glean as much as we can about these civilizations. Often we don’t have all the parts of the puzzle, in which case we must make certain assumptions on the facts available to us. When we recieve new information, we must reassess these assumptions. This is what’s happening in the given argument. The author made some assumptions and in light of new evidence it’s possible that those assumptions were flawed. To rectify or confirm the conclusions made from these assumptions, some more evidence is certainly required.
There is the possibility that Lithos traded those woven baskets with Palea. In such a case it’s completely fine to find those woven baskets in Lithos. To confirm this, we need proof that people of Lithos had developed boats strong enough to cross the Brim River. It might even be the case that some other group of people behaved as the intermediary in these transactions, acting as the middle man or simply transporting the goods. For any of these assumptions to be true, we need evidence that people at that point in history, were capable of crossing the river.
Even if people were incapable of crossing the river because they weren’t technologically advanced to do so, they could have crossed the river if the river became shallow for a certain time period. For instance there could have been a drought for few years that would have reduced the quantity of water in the river, making it shallow enough for people to cross it. Maybe the river was diverted for some time due to some natural occurences that allowed people to travel from Lithos to Palea and vice versa. All these possibilties require a proper study of the Brim River and the surrounding geographical area. Only then can we firmly conclude or deny this possibility.
Despite all this, we should not ignore the fact that both these villages must have descended from someone. If they descended form the same group of people, it’s safe to assume that the woven baskets are unique to that group of people. If that is the case, it makes complete sense for similar woven baskets to be found in both the villages. They were just passed down to the people of these villages from their ancestors. To confirm this possibility we need to know the history of the people of these villages.
In conclusion, the reason for occurence of the woven baskets in both these villages goes beyond these villages. The specific evidences aforementioned are critical to understanding how it happened but there is always a possibility that some possible scenario has been overlooked, which might require separate evidence. Nonetheless, this riddle is based on multifarious external factors, and only by carefully analysing and studying those factors can we gain conclusive evidence to find a solution.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 497 350
No. of Characters: 2382 1500
No. of Different Words: 234 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.722 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.793 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.588 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.88 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.796 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.32 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.288 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.495 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.178 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, then, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 28.8173652695 222% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2487.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 495.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02424242424 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72606033658 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480808080808 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.4761658263 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.48 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.8 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126759267822 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0393584193275 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0345609234079 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0791336662229 0.128457276422 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303644824013 0.0628817314937 48% => 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: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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