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Record W1942215547

The Zulu ceramic tradition in Msinga, South Africa

2011· article· en· W1942215547 on OpenAlex
Kent D. Fowler

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArchaeology and Rock Art Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsZuluPotteryContext (archaeology)Style (visual arts)ArchaeologyGeographyStructural basinEthnoarchaeologyHistoryGeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper summarizes fieldwork conducted in 2009 with Zulu potters in the Msinga region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. New data collected from this area of the Upper Thukela Basin are used to compare and contrast production technology, the scale of production, distribution, seasonality, and labour organization with Zulu potters in the Lower Basin. The results of this study indicate that pottery production in Msinga has a distinctive character, which generates an equally distinctive ceramic style. This report demonstrates that potters ’ social networks influence the visible and technical dimensions of pottery in the Thukela Basin. A better understanding of these social influences provides explanations for pottery variability that link the social context of ceramic production with style.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.532
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.073
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.201 · 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

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Citations27
Published2011
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