Publications and Studies on Ritual Bronzes of Sanxingdui in European and Japanese Languages
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Abstract
Sanxingdui is a Bronze Age archaeological culture spread in the vicinity of Chengdu, an administrative centre of the Sichuan province of the Peoples Republic of China in the last quarter of the 2nd millennium BC. Bronze ritual objects found in 1986 in JK1 and JK2 sacrificial pits were specific for that culture. The first to respond to the news in Chinese media about the Sanxingdui finds were prominent specialists of the 1970–1980s on archaeology of Shang and Zhou periods R. Bagley, R. Thorp, N. Barnard, K. M. Linduff, J. Rawson. Western archaeologists usually complained about the incompleteness of data they had and doubted a number of statements of their Chinese colleagues. After the 1994 Chinese publication of a colour album of sensational Sanxingdui bronze finds from this site, they were included into the exhibits of a number of large archaeological expositions held in London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and the USA. Each of these exhibitions was accompanied by the publication of a catalogue, which included studies about the Sanxingdui ritual bronzes. After a number of foreign tours at the beginning of the 21st century, the exhibit of Sanxingdui finds outside of China stopped for a long time. Only in 2023 the Chinese held an exhibition in Hong Kong called “Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan”. The reason was the resuming of archaeological excavations in the so-called “sacrificial region” of the Sanxingdui site which resulted in the discovery of six new sacrificial pits.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 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)
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".