Terraforming and monumentality as long-term social practice in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast of North America
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The archaeological record of hunter-gatherer-fishers in the southern Gulf Islands of the Northwest Coast provides evidence of large-scale construction of shell mounds and ridges, houses and villages, production features, defensive earthworks and burial mounds and cairns. Landscapes were terraformed – meaning anthropogenically constructed, modified and maintained – in service of multiple ends. These practices had significant implications for the construction of place, community, social inequalities and political dynamics over the long term. We document the scope of landscape construction and terraforming in the archaeological record of the Salish Sea, focusing on its spatial, temporal and social elements in the southern Gulf Islands. Monumental constructions were widespread in the area, in most cases emerging in an iterative manner over the past 5000 years. However, over the last 1500 years, more short-term and larger-scale episodes of construction are evident, potentially connected with increased sociopolitical inequalities and their contestation. Our overarching objective is to consider how monumentality and terraforming have shaped Coast Salish histories, and better establish how monumentality articulated with the reproduction of society.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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 it