Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People
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Abstract
Fedje, Daryl W. and Rolf W. Mathewes (editors), Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005, 448 pp. ISBN 0774809213 Cloth CDN. $99.00 ISBN 0774809221 Paper CDN. $39.95. The background to the research described in this volume began in the mid 1970s when a young graduate student at the University of Calgary, Knut Fladmark, proposed in his dissertation that an understanding of the First Americans, how and when they adapted to the New World, might best be served by considering migration along the west coasts of Alaska and British Columbia. Knut Fladmark's foreword to Haida Gwaii provides a brief overview of this era and sets the stage for the sixteen papers that follow. These papers by twenty-seven scholars representing such diverse disciplines as palynology, botany, zoology, geography, ecology, archaeology, anthropology, geology, molecular genetics, and oral history make this book an essential acquisition for college and university libraries, and the personal libraries of anyone interested in or involved with research on the early peopling of the New World. It surely stands out as one of the best interdisciplinary volumes melding archaeological-paleoecological research that this reviewer has seen, and the 25 page reference section provides readers with an unparalleled resource of published and unpublished literature. In proposing a west coast route, Fladmark set out to show that some areas of the coast were ice free in the late Pleistocene; that resources were available for humans to exploit; and that archaeological remains support the presence of humans in the area before 10,000 years ago. Haida Gwaii addresses these same themes in three parts. Part 1 : Paleoenvironmental History consists of six papers dealing with late quaternary geology of Haida Gwaii and surrounding marine areas, Hecate Strait paleoshores, vegetation, climate and plant resources, the evolution of endemic species and the history of vertebrate fauna. Collectively they show that older ice-free areas probably did exist on the now submerged continental shelf adjacent to the islands of Haida Gwaii; that the best evidence of a continuous refugium is in Hecate Strait; that the vegetative sequence saw tundra established by 15,000 BP giving way to coniferous forests around 12,500 BP; that molecular lineages of select animal species show long-term persistence of a complex ecosystem on the continental shelf distinct from the mainland and that these lineages became the source populations for postglacial recolonization of the Pacific Northwest during the Holocene; and lastly, that the optimum interval for human migration was likely between 13,500 and 12,000 BP. Part 2: Haida Traditional History includes two papers that examine the nature and transmission of Haida oral history and its relationship to scientific explanations of the past. The First Nations authors contend that the Xaayda (Haida) accurately remember historical events that occurred thousands of years ago and that their methods of transmitting their histories across generations preserve this authenticity. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
The three-model screen
all 5,600 screened works →All three models called this out of scope.
Book review of an interdisciplinary archaeology and paleoecology volume on Haida Gwaii; summarizes domain findings rather than studying research practice.
This is a review of a Canadian history and environment volume, not a study of research practice.
Book review of a Haida Gwaii history and environment volume; not about research practice.
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.005 |
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".