Kenneth G. Kelly & Meredith D. Hardy (eds.)French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. vii + 250 pp. (Cloth US$74.95)
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Abstract
This book introduces readers to the potential of archaeology to gather original information on the post-Columbian period in the greater circum-Caribbean region.The contributors' main goal is to explore through historical archaeology the dynamism, the diversity, and the singularities of the French colonies located outside the well-documented North American territories such as Canada or the Great Lakes region (p.2).To do so, the articles focus on the ways the French diaspora was experiencing life during the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries in various colonial contexts in the present-day United States, French Antilles, and French Guiana.Rather than focusing solely on the French presence, it addresses questions about interactions between people from different cultural backgrounds-European colonists, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans.This is a pioneering attempt to bring together archaeological information on the French colonial territories of the extended circum-Caribbean area.Although research is regularly realized in the context of CRM (Cultural Resources Management) archaeology or compliance archaeology in the Mississippi Valley, Louisiana, South Carolina, and the French départements d'outremer of Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Guyane, the field reports are difficult to obtain and their results are rarely synthesized in easily accessible media.Thus, this collection dramatically increases our understanding of the colonial circum-Caribbean area by exploring the contribution of France and French colonists in the development of the region.Unfortunately French scientists working in the Lesser Antilles are underrepresented; I propose that they merit another volume in the future.The book is based on a session of the 2004 meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology chaired by Kelly and Hardy.Their introductory chapter discusses the contexts of French colonization in the Americas as well as the state of research in historical archaeology on this subject.In Chapter 2, Ellen Shlasko looks at the way the French Huguenots and enslaved Africans adapted and maintained their identities within the development of South Carolina society by, among other things, their architectural traditions.Chapter 3, by Sarah Rivers-Cofield, investigates the relationship the refugee planters from Saint-Domingue maintained with their slaves, as well as the difference between French and American plantations in Maryland.Chapters 4 and 5 explore France's unsuccessful efforts (1720-22) to establish the capital of Louisiana in Biloxi and the precarious condition in which the colonists were living-
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.037 | 0.023 |
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.
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