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Record W2078163259 · doi:10.1179/pan.2006.032

Vickers Focus Subsistence: Continuity through the Seasons

2006· article· en· W2078163259 on OpenAlex
Tomasin Playford, B.A. Nicholson

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePlains Anthropologist · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Canadian institutionsBrandon University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubsistence agricultureGeographyArchaeologySeasonalitySubsistence economyEcologyFisheryBiologyAgriculture

Abstract

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The Vickers focus is an archaeological group found in south-central and southwestern Manitoba. After a brief occupation of the Tiger Hills region where these people were believed to have practiced horticulture, they moved west into the Lauder Sandhills of Manitoba and became intensive bison hunters. The faunal assemblages from two Vickers focus occupations in the Lauder Sandhills are examined to determine activity areas and the subsistence strategies of each site. The Jackson site contains a small bison kill and associated processing area while the nearby Vera site was mainly used for processing. Seasonality of each site is also inferred from faunal remains with Jackson being occupied during the colder months and Vera inhabited during a warmer season. One assumes that seasonality would be a significant factor in subsistence strategies as indicated by the ethnographic record. The predominance of bison exploitation with only a limited use of secondary food sources at the Vera and Jackson sites suggest that seasonality was not a deciding factor of their subsistence strategies.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.746
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.018
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it