Out of Alaska : Reconstructing the Social Structure of Prehistoric Canadian Thule Culture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prehistoric Thule Inuit societies (circa 1000--400 B.P.) ofthe eastern Canadian Arctic were derived directly from Inuit whaling societies ofnorthern Alaska.Thus, in many respects, the latter offer the closest analogy fbr interpreting Canadian Thule social structure.However, there are also a number ofsocial characteristics ofsome modern eastern Canadian Arctic lnuit societies that bear directly on this issue.In this paper, we employ data from both sources in interpreting Thule social stmcture, and do so with reference to corporate groups.Specifically, we focus on the role ofthe umialik (whaling crew leader), the importance ofthe karigt (men's house), and the social composition of whaling crews.104 J.M. Savelle and G.W. Wenzel stratified non-industrial societies [HAyDEN 1995: 36-37].To some extent they control labour and other resources at the expense of individual households.In this paper, we discuss the formation and maintenance of such groups within historic North Alaskan Inupiat and eastem Canadian Arctic lnuit societies, and interpret the archaeological record ofCanadian Thule Inuit societies (circa 1OOO-1600 A.D.) with reference to these groups.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".