Utatlán: The Constituted Community of the K'iche' Maya of Q'umarkaj ‐ by Backcock, Thomas F. [Review of the book <em>Utatlán: The Constituted Community of the K'iche' Maya of Q'umarkaj</em>, by T. F. Babcock]
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This volume is the culmination of fieldwork that was carried out in the 1970s at Greater Utatlán, made up of several communities surrounding the ceremonial centre of Q'umarkaj and the famed home of the Popol Wuj. Although he completed his dissertation in 1980, Babcock freely admits that life got in the way of publishing at the time, and I commend him for returning to it three decades later. This temporal distance offers the advantage of being able to review the initial work within the context of later research and to incorporate the wisdom attained since the initial writing of the dissertation. However, it has the disadvantage in some cases of dated references, methods and technology. Nonetheless, the volume is carefully written, including a thorough background to the study, plainly defined geographical, temporal and linguistic terms and excellent detail in the methodology and research questions. The goal of the volume is to lay out the findings from excavations conducted in the residential zone of Greater Utatlán and to define the ‘constituted community’ as understood by the ancient residents.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it