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 article introduces the theory about houses in chaco canyon. More specifically, in regard to passage, the writer put forth the idea, of three theories about great houses that support the claim that people used to live there. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer's claims.
first and foremost, the author of the reading states, the first theory hold that the chaco structure was used for residential purpose with a capacity of 100 people. some professionals in the same fields, however, stand in firm opposition to this claim. In the listening, for example, the professor states this theory does not prove that the people used to live there because the house that looks residential based on their outside point of view is very different from the inside. he goes on to say that, there is no minimum amount of fireplaces in this house that provide energy for 100 people, there are just a few for family people
The authore mention the second theory that states the great houses were used to store the food. great house were the only house that time was big enough to store food which is mainly contain maize. ofcource though not all experts in the same fields belives this is accurate again the speaker in the listening adress thier point when he states that this evidence not suppoort the idea of storage becase there was no container found which used for storage.Also there were no grains spilled on the floor of houses.
Finally the authore states the last theory proposes that houss used for ceremonies. ther were broken pots found in houses which wre used for making foods for ceremonies and the finsh of ceremonies they left it there.they called this place publeo alto.Not surprisingly the lecturer take issue with this by contending that the pots found there, were left by construction workers while they build up the houses. people mainly uses this house as trash cans becuse so many other things also found with pots that are basically garbage.
to sum up, both the writer and professore hold conflicting view about the casco canyone houses. It's clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, look, second, so, while, for example, in regard to, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1834.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 377.0 270.72406181 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86472148541 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23925157589 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53050397878 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 86.9133100819 49.2860985944 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9285714286 21.698381199 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85714285714 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 4.19205298013 453% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142311671869 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546398994284 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406504507638 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0783222461026 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325103992238 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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