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Record W4406755822 · doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.104989

Planning for analyses of use-wear on large grinding surfaces

2025· article· en· W4406755822 on OpenAlexafffund
Laurie Nixon-Darcus

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Archaeological Science Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMetal Alloys Wear and Properties
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsGrindingGeologyMetallurgyForensic engineeringMaterials scienceEngineering

Abstract

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• Evidence of different use-wear on the same grinding surface, even within close proximity. • Evidence of use-wear from both ethnographic and archaeological tools. • Kinetics witnessed in modern practises to explain resultant kinematics, use-wear observed. • Suggestions for systematic sampling for comparison between tools. • Discussion on possible field work limitations that can be encountered. Mapping out the surface of a grinding stone and selecting regions for use-wear analysis could pick up the effects of varying kinetics used in grinding. Observing the kinetics of the grinders in the modern villages of Tigrai, northern Ethiopia, revealed important information about potential use-wear, and lack thereof. While some sections are subject to little or no friction, other sections have concentrated pressure and higher friction which cause use-wear. Resharpening of the surface also has an affect on wear. This results in tribological effects and resulting kinematics varying across the surface. While a previous publication has described the kinetics used in grinding, this paper will provide examples of different use-wear patterns observed on the same working surface but from different areas. Methodological suggestions are made for analyses on grinding stone surfaces to understand the use-wear of past kinetics of use and the resulting kinematics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.352

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.143
GPT teacher head0.406
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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