The Natufian’ hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha - Report Season 2022
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The discovery of the site of Eynan-Mallaha (EM) (figure 1) first led to the realization that Natufian foragers had transitioned to a mostly settled way of life. The site’s rich and eco-diverse environmental context within the Jordan rift valley appears to have been exploited by sedentary hunter-gatherer groups over the lengthy period between 12500 and 9500 calibrated BCE. The past 22 excavation seasons conducted at the site have greatly contributed to the consolidation of Franco-Israeli collaboration in archaeology and the training of young researchers from both countries. Optimal conditions for a resumption of the excavations at Eynan-Mallaha have now coalesced: (1) the near completion of a monograph on the most recent campaign (1996–2005) directed by F. Valla and H. Khalaily focused on the Final Natufian; and (2) the ongoing work on the archives of J. Perrot for a better highlighting and dissemination of the discoveries made on the Late and Early Natufian between 1955 and 1976. The methods of high-precision excavation and data acquisition and analysis were applied in a first exploratory season (June–July 2022), with the support of the IAA, the CNRS and generous Foundation ARPAMED and Irene Levi Sala CARE, yielding highly promising results that more than justify launching our plans for a long term project.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.006 |
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".