The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony
Bibliographic record
Abstract
for over a quarter century James Deetz led the movement to integrate archaeology and material culture into the study of American history. The movement's manifesto was his seminal work, In Small Things Forgotten. Published in 1977 and based largely on his archaeological projects for the Plimoth Plantation museum, the book used archaeology to bring insight and excitement to early New England history. The approach Deetz introduced heavily influenced a generation of social and cultural historians and shaped the emerging field of historical archaeology. Deetz left New England and carried out a range of archaeology projects in California and Virginia before finally returning to Plymouth Colony to bring his work full circle. He and his wife, Patricia Scott Deetz, published The Times of Their Lives just before his death on November 25, 2000. This book closely examines the material lives of Plymouth colonists and in the process destroys many cherished Pilgrim myths. Such traditions as the first Thanksgiving, Plymouth Rock, and the cheerless lives of sullen separatists have been challenged by other scholars, but James and Patricia Deetz give them a thorough debunking. For example, rather than a solemn religious occasion, the first Thanksgiving is portrayed as a somewhat rowdy harvest home celebration, in which Native Americans greatly outnumbered Englishmen.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".