Natufian Settlement and Mobility: A Lithic Perspective from Saaïdé II, Lebanon
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Abstract
This study is concerned with settlement and mobility patterns from the perspective of the organization of the lithic technology. Radiating mobility patterns in the context of the Levantine Late Natufian are investigated by looking at the intensity of lithic reduction and the use of blanks for tool manufacture. By conjoining the results of the technological and morphological analysis of lithic tools with additional lines of evidence, such as site location, proximity to various resources, seasonal availability of resources, functional use of flint and non-flint artifacts, an integrated view has been reached on the intensity of human occupation at the Late Natufian site of Saaïdé II. With its large size, thick cultural deposits, varied tool kit and generalized subsistence, Saaïdé II was a residential camp for bands that subsisted on hunting and gathering. What enabled people to reside in this spot for more than one season was the overlap of seasonally available resources. The model of radiating mobility proposed for Saaïdé II illustrates that radiating mobility strategies were not abandoned with the onset of the climatic deterioration triggered by the Younger Dryas around 9,000 Be. Sites located in more marginal areas, beyond the boundaries of the Natufian "homeland", were able to sustain larger agglomerations of people and intensive human occupation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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