Investigating connectivity in the Metapontine chora using Least Cost Path
Bibliographic record
Abstract
• Landscape archaeology helps to characterize ancient Greek territories. • Several linear anomalies in the landscape of Metaponto were likely ancient roads. • Digitized path-finding (Least Cost Path) allows us to visualize ancient travel. • Sanctuaries in the countryside acted as spaces for assembly and administration. • Communities formed in the countryside, using sanctuaries as places of interaction. Ancient sites identified through the surface-level collection of artifacts in the countryside of the Greek settlement of Metaponto reveal a collection of extra-urban necropoleis, sanctuaries, and farmsteads. Topographical anomalies identified in aerial photography of this area also suggest a possible system of land division. Using Least Cost Path, routes most likely used for travel are identified, many of which overlap the anomalous “division lines.” These routes represent potential roads between farmsteads and rural sanctuaries of Metaponto in the 5th-3rd centuries BCE, and their interaction with the “division lines” reveals their potential use within a system of property delineation in the chora (‘countryside’). The formation of rural communities centered upon these rural sanctuaries is also explored.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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