Water Resources and Precontact Site Placement in Southern Manitoba During the Last 2000 Years
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Abstract
In common parlance, the basic necessities of life are water, food and shelter — assuming that air is a given. The inter-relationships of these three variables are complex and there is an obvious need that all are addressed by any society in their strategic land use planning. The spatial relationship of precontact Sonota/Besant, Blackduck/Duck Bay and Vickers focus sites in southern Manitoba is examined with relation to their proximity to water resources, as well as other factors that may playa role in site placement including seasonality, historical factors, environmental context, and culture-specific subsistence strategies. The observed site distribution of each group is compared with a random distribution of points. Results suggest that, while Sonota/Besant and Blackduck/Duck Bay sites are more frequently located near permanent water bodies and streams, Vickers focus sites tend to be located at some distance from permanent water and are more likely located near intermittent water sources. The reasons for these differences in site distribution with respect to water resources are believed to be related to historic subsistence strategies and, possibly, the desire to avoid unwanted visitors.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".