A paleopathological analysis of juveniles from Thebes: Childhood health in Byzantine Greece
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Limited publications address juvenile health in Byzantine Thebes, Greece. As vulnerable and abundant members of most populations, children are essential to understanding the health experiences of past populations. This thesis examines juvenile skeletal material recovered from a Byzantine period cemetery (5th-9th centuries CE) located on Ismenion Hill in Thebes, Greece. This site is located adjacent to the early Christian church of St. Luke the Evangelist. In antiquity, St. Luke was traditionally considered to be a physician. Previous analyses of the adult skeletal sample revealed a high prevalence of leprosy, cancer, and infection, leading researchers to hypothesize a relationship between the cemetery and the church of the physician saint. This thesis investigates this hypothesis with respect to the juveniles recovered at this site. Eleven graves were studied and a minimum of 59 juvenile individuals were identified. Perinates (n=15), infants (n=9), and young juveniles (n=25) make up the majority of the sample, followed by older juveniles (n=8) and adolescents (n=2). Overall, 16 (27%) juveniles present with dental and/or skeletal pathologies. Through the process of differential diagnosis, infection, metabolic conditions, and hematopoietic disorders were found to dominate the sample. To understand why children were brought to and buried at Ismenion Hill, cultural, social, and environmental factors shaping childhood health in late antiquity are addressed.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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.
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".