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Angkor sandpile
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Claim (verbatim)
Angkor sandpile. The canal network operated at self-organized criticality: repair and flood events in sediment should be power-law distributed, with the fatal event on the same distribution's tail. Falsify: sediment cores plus LiDAR.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
sediment cores plus LiDAR.
Provenance
Run: Imported conversation (verbatim harvest) · model: claude-fable-5
Origin: operator conversation with Claude Fable 5 at max effort, conducted 2026-07-03, relayed verbatim by the operator into the shepherd session on 2026-07-04. No ModelRun exists for the original generation (it happened outside the pipeline); this transcript file is the canonical capture. Transcript path: docs/generated/conjecture_harvest_fablemax_20260703.md. Model (operator-attested, not pipeline-recorded): claude-fable-5. Novelty disclaimer (verbatim, load-bearing -- rule 4): "Same caveat as before, doubled: at 100 items across all of archaeology and history, some of these will have cousins in the literature I can't check. What I can guarantee is the format — each links two things not normally linked, and each names the dataset or measurement that would kill it."
Novelty / leakage triage
Adjacent (closely related prior work exists)
A published network model shows Angkor's water infrastructure fails abruptly and cascades once flood magnitude crosses a threshold — critical-LIKE instability on the exact object — and sediment/tree-ring work documents the drought-flood sequence. The specifically self-organized-criticality claim (power-law distributed repair/flood event sizes with the terminal event on the same distribution's tail) was not located as fitted; cascade vulnerability and SOC are related but distinct claims.
- 'The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations', Science Advances — Threshold cascade model on Angkor's network
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