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Record W2157163708

Frontier Stories: Reading and Writing Plains Archaeology

2003· article· en· W2157163708 on OpenAlex
Melody Herr

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueLatin American Theatre Review (The University of Kansas) · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArchaeology and Natural History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFrontierAdventureArchaeologyHistoryReading (process)Culture of the United StatesArchaeology of the AmericasArt historyArtLiteratureLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Today W. Duncan Strong (1899-1962) has been all but forgotten in the history of American archaeology.He made no front-page discoveries or theoretical breakthroughs; his single claim to fame was his contribution to Great Plains archaeology.This work, carried out in the early 1930s at the beginning of his career during the otherwise unremarkable Nebraska State Archaeological Survey, merits a place in the discipline's history merely because his were the first substantial publications on this previously neglected region.For students of American literature and culture, however, his Nebraska field journals and publications offer an extraordinary opportunity for investigating popular images of the Great Plains.Specifically, Strong's writings reveal the ways in which stories about the American frontier, from historical documents and scientific reports to novels and folk memories, shaped perceptions of the region's landscape and history.Strong craved adventure, and he found it equally in archaeology and in books.Over the course of his career, he wintered with a band of nomads in Labrador, lost two fingers in a hunting accident in Honduras, and excavated numerous ancient sites in Peru.When real-life excitement slowed, he read adventure stories.It is telling that, while supervising a New Deal work relief dig in California, he read books about exploring Brazil, riding

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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 categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.968
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

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 studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.242 · 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