Beyond the Beads: The Representation of Metis Women in the Archaeological Record
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Abstract
In this thesis I examine stories pertaining to women as told by the belongings recovered during excavations conducted at three hivernant Métis sites. The hivernants were groups of Métis families who banded together to form winter bison hunting brigades. Overwintering on the Canadian prairies, they constructed cabins at sites that positioned them to take advantage of natural resources such as water and plant life, but also allowed them to readily engage in the bison hunt. The three sites that I focus on were occupied during the 1870s and are located at Buffalo Lake, Alberta (FdPe-1), Chimney Coulee, Saskatchewan (DjOe-3), and Petite Ville, Saskatchewan (FdNm-15). Although seed beads form the greatest proportion of belongings recovered from these sites, I seek to look beyond the beads to discern patterns within other categories of belongings that can be used to illustrate what daily life was like for the women and their families living at the study sites. Using approaches from Indigenous, feminist, and historical archaeology as my theoretical foundation, I also engage the artifact assemblages with the Cree and Métis concepts of keeoukaywin and wâhkôhtowin in mind. These concepts translate into “the visiting way” and the “state of being related”. Incorporating these concepts into my research not only allows me to discern the details of daily life but also permits me to consider the implications of what the assemblage can tell me about the relationships that Métis women would have had with the other members of their community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 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 teacher head, 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".