Depositional Environments and Archeological Site Formation in the Cypress Hills, Southeastern Alberta
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Abstract
Previous research on the Cypress Hills of southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan suggests that they have experienced a dynamic history of Holocene landscape change. In particular, the meltwater channels flanking the Cypress Hills appear to have experienced intermittent deposition of sediment transported from upslope alternating with episodes of landscape stability and soil formation. This pattern favours the formation of archeological sites containing multiple stratigraphically discrete occupations, an important characteristic because the geomorphic processes necessary to create such interpretively valuable sites are rare across much of the Northern Plains. Furthermore, the rich resources offered by the Cypress Hills suggest that they were attractive to past human groups, a feature that enhances the prospects for such sites. This paper discusses a study designed to investigate the geomorphic history of the meltwater channels and to identify buried archeological sites in these channels. The preliminary results of this study confirm that the channels have experienced a cyclical pattern of stability and deposition favourable to the stratified burial of cultural remains. Moreover, this study has recovered archeological material from numerous locations, strongly suggesting that the meltwater channels represent an excellent environment for the formation of high-quality sites with multiple discrete cultural layers.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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