Bibliographic record
Abstract
This primitive figurine of an apparently pregnant female measures only 3.8×2.3 cm. She was created by an unknown artist around Valdivia, Ecuador, sometime between 2300 and 2000 BCE. The figure was sculpted from two small rolls of clay that were pressed together, shaped, and then hardened. The smooth surfaces of the body and elaborate hairdo seem to have been burnished perhaps with a glaze. In contrast, the face appears to have been worked with a rudimentary tool, giving it a pointilistic texture. These little female figures are often found, usually in pieces, during excavation of middens (ancient trash deposits). The simplicity of their creation and the numbers excavated give rise to speculation that they were used in fertility rituals and then subsequently discarded. The tiny scale and simple elegance of this month’s figure provides a stark contrast to the hyper-realism and larger-than-life scale expressed in the monumental 2.4 metre tall Mueck sculpture in the April issue. This figurine is housed in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a part of their permanent collection. Technique and materials have changed many times over the past 4000 years; however, the fascination that we have with our species’ reproductive biology and magic remains central to our human and artistic visions. The image of the figure is used courtesy of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Available at: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/40210/figure-of-a-pregnant-woman.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.130 | 0.029 |
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.
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".