PRE-COLUMBIAN “JADE”: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED IDENTIFICATION OF GREEN-COLORED STONE IN MESOAMERICA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The discovery of Pre-Columbian artifacts manufactured from green-colored stone is a noteworthy event within Mesoamerican archaeology, made even more significant as size and aesthetic value of the objects increase. Unfortunately, it is all too common that the color of such artifacts is used as a deciding factor in their identification and categorization. The lumping of green-colored artifacts into one category — that of “jade” or “greenstone” — is often the end of the material identification process, regardless of the fact that there are numerous different green-colored minerals found in different sources throughout Mesoamerica. The justification for merging these very different geological products stems from the fact that they were used in very similar ways throughout Mesoamerica and Lower Central America. However, the advent of portable techniques for elemental analysis has removed some of the difficulty and high costs that have traditionally inconvenienced the identification of green-colored artifacts, and can be used in combination with visual identification studies to improve accuracy of analyses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".