A data analysis of Near Eastern Middle Palaeolithic hominid fossil occurrences using evidence of disposal of the dead
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fossil occurrences ascribed to archaic Homo sapiens, Homo (sapiens) neandertalensis, or early Homo sapiens sapiens or associated with the Middle Palaeolithic or Mousterian Techno-complex from twenty caves and rockshelters in the Near East are examined. These sites include: A mud, Bisitun, Dederiyeh 2, Geulah, possibly el-Wad, Hayonim, Karain, Kebara, Ksar' Akil, Masloukh, Qafzeh, Ras el-Keib, Shanidar, Shovakh, Shukbah, Skhul, Tabun, Tamtama, Zuttiyeh, and Kanal, Tikali, or Merdevenli (near Magracik in Turkey). The patterns of behavior expressed at these sites through disposal of the dead evidence suggest regional continuity with the gradual emergence of social complexity during the Middle Palaeolithic and reflect symbolic prescience on the part of the social groups. Curation or post-mortem processing of skeletal remains intensified over time and continued into the Upper Palaeolithic. The Near Eastern Middle Palaeolithic was a period of social development which laid the foundations for Upper Palaeolithic behaviors.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.009 | 0.016 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".