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I Would Love To Work Remotely
I Would Love To Work Remotely
The reading passage suggests there possible purposes of the great houses, built around twelfth century
A.D. in Chco Canyon. The lecturer refutes the purposes mentioned in reading section and provides
alternative explanations of the writer’s claims.
According to the article the great houses look exactly alike the apartments architecture of the more
recent southwest societies. The lecturer disputes and say that presence of few fire places suggests that
these houses were not used for residential purposes. Furthermore, he say that by looking from outside
it seems that stone houses were used for living, but the interior of the houses tell different story.
Secondly, the reading passage posits that these houses were used to store the grains of maize because
maize was main crop of that population. The listening section finds flaw in this claim, and contends that
if the house were used to store grains, that during the excavation, the archeologist might have found
some remaining of grains. Therefore the absence of the evidence suggests that these stone houses were
not use for storing grains.
Lastly, the writer believes that the presence of remaining pots of clay suggests that stone houses were
used for ceremonial purpose. The lecturer, however, disagrees with this proposal and says that there
are other possible explanations for the broken clay pot remaining’s. He suspects that moldy material
might be heap of the unused building material or the clay utensils used by workers.