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Record W7067691659

Lithic Resource Utilization and Cultural Assemblage at the Wolf Willow (FbNp-26) Site

2024· dissertation· en· W7067691659 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Library (University of Saskatchewan) · 2024
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRadiocarbon datingAssemblage (archaeology)DebitageExcavationMiddenWillowCaveMesolithicProjectile point
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Wolf Willow site (FbNp-26) is a multi-component Precontact campsite located within the Opimihaw Valley of Wanuskewin Heritage Park, two kilometers north of the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Excavations of the site began in 2010 and continued for another 10 years ending in the field season of 2020. These excavations involved a field school established by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. This thesis will focus on the 2015 to 2020 field season assemblage of cultural material including pottery, lithic debitage and stone tools. During the initial field season at Wolf Willow, four distinct archaeological cultural levels were identified and radiocarbon dated. These cultural levels include: Plains Side Notched, Prairie Side Notched, the McKean Series, and Oxbow Complex materials. In the later seasons (2015-2020) more cultural levels have been identified both in the field and also in the lab. This includes a Historic component, a Pelican Lake Complex component and a Mummy Cave Complex component thus adding new cultural elements to an already multicomponent site. The stratigraphy of the Wolf Willow site is complex and highly variable across the site area. This is the result of dynamic erosional and depositional activity as well as other environmental formation processes. These processes disturbed the original deposit of the archaeological material which in turn affected interpretations of the site occupations. An analysis of these environmental disturbance processes is discussed in relation to the stratigraphy at Wolf Willow.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.166
Threshold uncertainty score0.329

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2024
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