NEW RESULTS CONCERNING THE BARROWS OF THE MONTEORU CULTURE AT BÂRSEȘTI, IN THE CURVATURE SUBCARPATHIANS
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Abstract
Near a late Hallstattian barrow group that S. Morintz excavated in 1957, the barrow 19, which he thought had been built in the same period, probably covered two Monteoru cremation graves. At the new excavations of 2016–2017 on the Dumbravă plateau near the village of Bârsești, a group of four Bronze Age barrows (nos. 39–42) belonging to the Monteoru culture was investigated. As the features of the recently‑excavated tumuli showed, barrow 19 was probably built in the Middle Bronze Age as well. The two graves belong to the phase Ic2 of the Monteoru culture and are dated to the first quarter of the second millennium BC. The young adults were cremated immediately postmortem at a relatively low temperature (500–800°C), and only some of the incineration remains were put in the graves. Cremation graves underneath the barrow were found in the tumulus 42 from the Monteoru Ic2 phase. The mound was built of earth and stabilized by a stone circle and covered by stones. The barrow had central ritual pits filled with stones and was in use for more than two centuries. The barrow 41 was a complex ensemble built upon various small mounds with cremation graves and offering pits; it was used as a funeral area in the phases Monteoru Ia/IIa and IIb for nearly two centuries. The barrows 39 and 40 of the Monteoru IIb phase were not built for cremation graves but were used as a symbolically‑submitted inventory of the deceased persons.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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