The 2024 Field Season at Caere, Vigna Marini Vitalini: A New Etruscan Temple and Its Surroundings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The field known as the Vigna Marini Vitalini holds a special place in the archaeology of the city of Caere, beginning in the late 19th century, when a massive number of architectural terracottas were discovered there and eventually found their way to European and North American museums. In the summer of 2024, the Queen's University team opened a new trench in the area where the 19th-century excavations had taken place. The foundations of a temple came to light, along with a building with at least three rooms parallel to its southwest side. Based on the finds from the associated layers and a deposit of architectural terracottas, the temple can be dated to the early fifth century BCE. When the monumental structure was built, however, the area already had a long prior history. The Etruscan builders dug the foundation trenches into a beaten earth pavement that extends over a large area, suggesting that this had previously been an open space. The floor covers a filled quarry and traces of even earlier wooden structures. This new evidence shows that the history of this area was by no means a linear and planned development, and that there were multiple changes of destination and transformations of the urban landscape.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 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) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
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".