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Record W4414668991 · doi:10.4324/9781003348252-1

Learning Archaeology

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414668991 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
A. Katherine Patton, Danielle A. Macdonald, Michael Chazan

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMuseums and Cultural Heritage
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPassionArtifact (error)WonderPoint (geometry)Section (typography)

Abstract

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Dear Students, welcome to the wonderful world of archaeology! You might ask yourself, ‘Why am I learning about the past and why is my professor so excited to talk about stone tools, broken pottery, animal bones, or whatever other artifact excites them?’ Let us first start by introducing ourselves, and then hopefully we can help answer some of these questions. We (the editors) are all archaeology professors, just like your professor who told you to read this book. Michael and Katherine work at the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada), while Danielle works at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA). We’ve known each other for more than 20 years. As professors, we’ve worked with generations of students in our classrooms, trying to excite the same passion for the past in our students as we have. However, sometimes this is challenging. As professors, we often struggle to communicate why students should care about something that happened thousands of years ago, and why it matters to the present. We will often talk at great lengths about artifacts, showing endless pictures of projectile points or different painted pieces of pottery, without actually showing students how to analyze them, or how to interpret the data we collect from them. We realized that if we want to engage students with the study of the past, we have to engage them in the present, in the classroom, and teach through doing , rather than showing. It is from these realizations that the idea for this book was born. In Learning Archaeology , we bring the voices of different archaeologists to you, providing real-world case studies with hands-on learning activities to allow you to analyze and interpret archaeological data.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.079
Threshold uncertainty score0.265

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.005
Scholarly communication0.0110.011
Open science0.0020.008
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0790.040

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.180 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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