1 Why did Norse Greenland fail as a colony?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Norse no longer inhabited the two settlements they had established in Greenland around the year 1000, their decline and eventual disappearance has been much debated. Until the twentieth century, theories were generally based upon interpretations of Inuit oral tradition and primarily attributed the demise of the Norse colony to the aggressive nature of contact between the ancestors of the modern Inuit and their Norse contemporaries (Seaver, 1996, 119). More recently, however, in addition to theories emanating from both the limited documentary evidence for the period and the expanding archaeological record, a number of scientific advances have allowed for a more thorough and directed debate as to the plausible causes of their demise. In this way, theories have diversified in content, bringing Brunn’s hope of a multi-disciplinary solution to the mysterious extinction of the Norse much closer to realisation (McGovern, 2000, 328). Most notably, for example, recent analyses of the central Greenland ice-core, largely corroborated by data obtained from tree-ring studies and sea-sediments have produced an apparently incontrovertible paleo-climatic argument for the failure of the
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".