Chapter 7 - Cultural landscapes from 2000 BC onwards (Temple landscapes Fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age has always been a focus of considerable debate (Bonanno 1993a & b; Stoddart 1999, 141) (see Volume 2, Chapter 10), ever since the transition was recognized, most prominently by Zammit in Tarxien temple. Early debate dwelt on substantial changes in material culture and rites of death, and emphasized the abandonment silts of the Tarxien temple detected by Zammit (1930, 45–7; Evans 1971, 149–51). These data, interpreted in a cultural historical framework, suggested that not only was there radical change in the population, but a substantial period of abandonment (Trump 1961a & b, 303; Evans 1971, 224). As more stratigraphies began to be investigated at Skorba, Xagħra Brochtorff Circle and Tas-Silġ in the second half of the twentieth century, distinct relationships between the two succeeding societies were suggested, as outlined in the previous Chapter 6. What is becoming clearer is that the so-called Bronze Age transition emerged in the final centuries of the third millennium bc, evolved, albeit in punctuated and uneven steps through to its demise at the start of the first millennium bc and lasted a remarkable 1200 years or so. It remains a complex and still poorly understood episode of distinctive ceramics, monuments and landscapes that deserves better understanding and chronological refinement, through fresh problem oriented fieldwork similar to the FRAGSUS Project. [excerpt]
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.003 |
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".