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.
Archaeologists were arguing on a coin that have been found in the Main state of the United States. While the lecturer gives evidence that this coin is a genuine historical evidence of the Europeans who came into contact with Native Americans, the article cast doubt this by stating that this coin is a fake evidence and it was placed there by a person who tried to mess up with evidences.
First subject of discussion is about the great distance from Norse settlement. Norse are the European explorers. The lecturer mentions that European explorers traveled long distance and they might reach Norse settlement while they were travelling. Furthermore, archaeologists have found other objects from other places other than this coin. However, the article suggests that the coin was discovered in a place far away from Norse settlement.
The second thing of debate is about no other coins were found. The speaker gives evidence that Norse didn't do settlement. They packed up all their coins with them when they leave. Yet, the passage clearly states that no other coins indicates that this coin is not a genuine evidence.
Last thing associates with subject that north american people didn't use European's coins. The professor mentions that some north american may found these coins interesting and valuable. In addition, Europeans might use these coins to trade with other things but not as money. Nevertheless, the author of the article says that the Norse didn't use European's coins.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, may, nevertheless, second, so, while, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1241.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10699588477 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52913387268 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522633744856 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 378.9 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => 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: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.2018584113 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.7333333333 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244248156794 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912742965409 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578582476651 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153371416371 0.162205337803 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040140899509 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.06 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.48 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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