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Record W173208767 · doi:10.15173/nexus.v14i1.175

The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination

2000· article· en· W173208767 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Grant D. Zazula

Bibliographic record

VenueNEXUS The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRadiocarbon datingPleistoceneCavePrehistoryArchaeologyThermoluminescence datingSettlement (finance)GeologyGeographyPaleontologyPhysical geography

Abstract

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The problem concerning the initial Pleistocene peopling of Australasia is reviewed in light of recent findings that suggest this settlement may be earlier than the conventional view of 35,000 to 40,000 BP. Methods including anthropogenically interpreted paleoecological changes and the application of luminescence dating techniques clearly suggest people settled this continent earlier than the applicable limits of conventional radiocarbon analysis. Early luminescence ages at the Ngarrabullgan Cave (David et al. 1997), Malakunanja II (Roberts et al. 1994), Nauwalabila I (Roberts et al. 1994), and Jinmium (Fullagar et al. 1996) clearly indicate that the initial phase of Australian prehistory must be re-examined and radiocarbon ages may no longer be an applicable methodology utilized to obtain ages for the initial settlement of Australia.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.312 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2000
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