Taphonomic analysis of the Folsom bonebed at Lake Theo, Texas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Lake Theo site is one of a handful of excavated Folsom-aged bonebeds on the Southern Plains. Despite the importance of this site, only limited research has been conducted on the collection. This limitation is a consequence of most of the bones being housed in sediment blocks removed from the field. This study makes use of recent efforts that have made the collection more accessible for research. Both taphonomic observations on the bone assemblage and statistical analyses that evaluate models of natural and cultural pre- and postdepositional processes now are reported. Taphonomic observations are consistent with the hypothesis that sediments buried the bonebed shortly after the carcasses were deposited. Forward stepwise multiple regression analyses indicate that the total products utility model is the best-fitting model. As such, the analyses suggest that Folsom hunters transported elements of higher utility away from the Lake Theo bison kill for further use. The actions of water flow and other natural destructive processes have not significantly influenced the observed skeletal element frequency.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".