PIONEERING THULE INUIT SUBSISTENCE: A FAUNAL ANALYSIS OF TIKTALIK (NkRi-3)
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Abstract
The Thule Inuit, ancestors of modern Inuit, were hunter-gatherers who colonized much of Arctic North America in the 13th century AD, but their migration remains poorly understood. Hunter-gatherer subsistence practices reflect their knowledge of local landscapes, knowledge colonizers would lack. This thesis attempts to assess the impact colonization had on Thule Inuit subsistence practices by examining the faunal assemblage from House 5 at Tiktalik (NkRi-3), a pioneering Thule Inuit site on Amundsen Gulf, NWT. Ringed seals dominate the faunal assemblage, suggesting that the site’s occupants were subsisting almost entirely on this species. Detailed analyses of the Ringed seal bones showed that breathing-hole sealing might have been the main hunting activity conducted at the site, and that seals were brought back as entire carcasses. Comparisons between Tiktalik and nearby sites suggested that Thule colonizers practiced diverse subsistence strategies, and that shifts in subsistence in later periods might reflect increased landscape knowledge.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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