Gordon Noble. <i>Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire</i>
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Abstract
This volume represents the first major academic synthesis of the Scottish Neolithic for many years.Much has changed, even since the mid-1990s synthetic works of Patrick Ashmore (1996) and Gordon Barclay (1998).In particular, the impact of commercial sector rescue excavation has transformed the ways in which we now see the lowland Scottish Neolithic.The archetypal, stonebuilt monuments of Orkney no longer dominate our picture of Neolithic life and death in Scotland as they once did.The tireless work of Gordon Barclay, in pressing the case for the importance of the eastern Scottish material, has been crucial in this regard, and has paved the way for the approach taken in this volume.Nonetheless, the author brings a great deal of his own vision to the study.Chronologically the book encompasses the Earlier Neolithic, from around 4000 -3300 BC, and the Later Neolithic, from 3300 -2500 BC, terminating with the beginnings of the Beaker tradition in Scotland.Noble sets out his main themes early on.Perhaps most important is the evident tension between the manifest regional variation of the Scottish Neolithic, and the need to develop narratives on much grander national, and international, scales.A second theme is the explicit desire to break away from the perceived Orcadian bias of much previous work.The shadow of the spectacularly preserved monuments of the northern archipelago, such as the great tomb of Maes Howe and the extraordinary settlement of Skara Brae, lies heavily across the volume.The main chapters are structured by monument type.Thus, after a discussion of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, Noble devotes individual chapters to timber structures, earthen barrows, megalithic monuments, and later complexes dominated by henges and related forms.The focus on monuments, in both the structure and content of the book, inevitably means that other aspects
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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