Chapter Two: Tseshaht Oral History and Ethnography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Tseshaht Archaeological Project was initiated as a joint endeavour of the Tseshaht First Nation and Parks Canada. The Tseshaht, one of the 14 members of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council on western Vancouver Island, reside today on their reserves near the city of Port Alberni. Their traditional territories, however, include the Broken Group islands of Barkley Sound, now within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. This volume reports the results of three seasons of fieldwork in Barkley Sound at Ts'ishaa, the ancient village that was the centre of the Tseshaht world for millennia and from which they derive their name. This was the location in which the Tseshaht people first came into being according to their creation story. This volume presents extensive ethnographic information on Tseshaht culture and traces the changes in social and political organization through amalgamations with neighbouring groups in the early historic period. It also provides detailed descriptions and analysis of the materials recovered through large-scale archaeological excavation at this important site, documenting an occupation that spanned the last 5000 years. Appendices present specific contributions to the research by Michael Wilson (Regional Geology, Geoarchaeology and Artifact Lithologies), Marty Magne (Lithic Analysis), Ian Sumpter (Analysis of Shellfish Assemblages), Gay Frederick and Susan Crockford (Analysis of Vertebrate Fauna) and Iain McKechnie (Small Fish Remains from the Column Samples). The results make a significant contribution to our knowledge of Nuu-chah-nulth prehistory and, more generally, Northwest Coast archaeology.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".