Archaeological Insights from Excavation Work at a Late Holocene Pacheedaht Village
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, within Pacheedaht (formerly Pacheena; variation: Pacheenaht) territory, a large archaeological site was recently identified during ecological restoration work. Here we present the results of archaeological investigations initiated by Pacheedaht First Nation at the Browns Creek site (DdSc-32), which was occupied for approximately 1,000 years until just before the historical period; that is, after European contact in the eighteenth century. Our investigations provide baseline data regarding site characteristics and distribution, chronology of occupation, lithic and bone technologies, and resource use. Ethnographic information is used to contextualize archaeological findings. Additionally, analysis of remote sensing data informs the dynamic history of the Gordon River delta and provides the first estimate of its progradation rate. Little systematic archaeological investigation has previously occurred on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, particularly within Pacheedaht territory, and our findings add considerably to the archaeological record of the region. This work serves as a case study for work in partially disturbed archaeological contexts, demonstrating that despite significant impacts, valuable information can still be recovered.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".