PRE-COLUMBIAN JADEITE AXES FROM ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE SOURCES
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Excavation of ornamental and gem materials from workshop sites on the island of Antigua, West Indies, also uncovered jade celts (axe forms) and fragments thereof. All are jadeite jades (jadeitite), like jades from Mesoamerica. The Antigua sites date to the Saladoid period (ca. 250-500 AD), roughly equivalent to the Early Classic period for Mesoamerican cultures, and reveal “jades ” used in a context – decorative celt – well developed by Mesoamericans some 3100 km to the West. Ten of these jade artifacts were examined by a combination of mineralogical and petrographic techniques to determine their mineral constituents, mineral compositions and petrographic textures and place them in a context of possible sources among worldwide sources of jadeite jade. The common assemblage for six artifacts studied as polished sections include jadeite, omphacite, albite, a white-tan mica, quartz, zoisite/clinozoisite and titanite, with the exception of one artifact lacking albite and quartz, and one lacking mica. Allanite was found in the cores of zoisites in two jades, and glaucophane and lawsonite, each, were observed in single jades. The other four jades, which could not be studied as well, appear to contain comparable assemblages. Conspicuous among the Antigua jades is the textural setting of quartz, a phase
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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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