Island Workshop Research Articles

Isotopic Evidence of Sources for Central California Olivella Beads

ABSTRACT Without the large bead production sites present on the Channel Islands, the origin of Olivella beads in central California has been largely speculative. Stable isotope analysis of shell carbonate provides a useful test of source, production, and distribution hypotheses by providing information about the environment of shell formation. We reassess results of previous stable isotope sourcing studies and employ a cluster analysis that suggests most Olivella beads recovered from central California were produced from shell harvested from the Central Coast or Bay Area, but conveyance from southern California also contributed to the bead supply by the end of Phase 1 of the Middle Period (ca. 1,545 BP). Bead production in central California appears decentralized relative to large Channel Island workshops, a difference that likely reinforced the divergent sociopolitical trajectories of the regions.

10 workshops on Immunology of preeclampsia

For the 10th issue of the « island workshops », now the Reunion Workshops, organised by Pierre Yves Robillard since the first one in Tahiti challenging the “vascular disease only” theory of pre eclampsia and introducing the primipaternity concept, we examined the reasons for considering an Immunological approach to the disease. This (brief) overview thus examines several important topics in an Immunological framework. I have chosen to present here the evolution of the main themes rather than a purely chronological vision.

Culdesac Island workshops: Creative capacities in a virtual learning environment

Abstract This work encompasses some reflections developed in the Culdesac Island project: a virtual lab put together through intergenerational creative workshops. The use of Second Life has allowed multiple pathways, the interaction of simulations and the creation of a social space where knowledge flows and is shared, plus the possibility of generating collaborative work. These simulation environments allow ‘real’ learning and spaces to share and develop artistic experiences. The aim is to show the educational potential of the virtual environment from the transference of real experience conveyed by the figure of the ‘avatar-performer’, thus establishing a relational framework between the ‘body-object’ and cooperative processes in an intangible space. In this social lab, real cultural actions are reproduced and/or revised in a mimetic way as the interactive principle between participants of different ages and profiles. Furthermore, it adds new values to network production based on real and virtual experience. Este trabajo recoge algunas reflexiones desarrolladas en el proyecto Culdesac Island, un laboratorio virtual articulado a través de talleres creativos intergeneracionales. La utilización de SecondLife ha permitido múltiples recorridos, interacción de simulaciones y la creación de un espacio social donde fluye y también se comparte conocimiento y la posibilidad de generar acciones de trabajo colaborativo. Entornos de simulación que permiten aprendizajes “reales” y espacios para compartir y desarrollar experiencias artísticas. El objetivo es mostrar el potencial pedagógico del entorno virtual desde la transferencia de experiencia real vehiculada en la figura del “avatar-performer”, un marco relacional entre el “cuerpo-objeto” y nuevos procesos colaborativos en el espacio intangible. Un laboratorio social en el que se reproduce y/o revisa en clave mimética las acciones culturales reales como principio interactivo entre participantes de diferentes edades y perfil, añadiendo nuevos valores sobre la producción en red basados en la experiencia, real y virtual.

Hyalidae

As a result of the Amphipod Lizard Island workshop (2005) three species of Hyalidae were found: two new species are described, Hyachelia lowryi sp. nov. and Lelehua myersi sp. nov. and Parhyale hawaiensis is recorded for the first time for Australia.

WORKSHOP ISLAND 3 ALGEBRAIC ASPECTS OF INTEGRABILITY

As did the very first ISLAND workshop, ISLAND 3 took place on the Hebridean island of Islay, providing a beautiful and serene surrounding for the meeting which ran for over four days. Building on the success of the previous meetings, ISLAND 3 saw the largest number (so far) of participants coming from countries all over the world. A complete list can be found below.

The glass transition possible research directions

In these proceedings, I will outline what I think is the present state of our understanding of the glass transition in fragile glass-forming liquids, and the most important and promising directions for research. These considerations are based on numerous conversations with colleagues as well as the panel discussions held at the Kent Island Workshop.

The Science for Citizens program and the Folly Island Workshop on Erosion Abatement

The Science for Citizens program and the Folly Island Workshop on Erosion Abatement

Greek Sculpture of the Archaic Period: The Island Workshops. By John Griffiths Pedley.

<i>Greek Sculpture of the Archaic Period: The Island Workshops</i>. By John Griffiths Pedley.

Island Gems Aftermath

This article is intended not only to record additions and corrections to Island Gems (published by the Hellenic Society in 1963 as its tenth Supplementary Volume; here abbreviated IGems), but also to discuss a class of engraved stones which was not properly distinguished in that book. The main series of Island Gems belongs to the seventh and early sixth centuries B.C. Most of the stones and a few of their devices copy Bronze Age forms, and the material is generally a distinctive, often translucent, green serpentine (‘steatite’). This series ends in the first half of the sixth century, but it was possible to identify, by their material and technique, some later gems from Island workshops which correspond in style and shape with the contemporary Greek scarabs in harder materials. The comparatively soft material had meant that the intaglio devices on Island gems could be cut without recourse to the drill or cutting wheel, and this technique was retained for the later scarabs. It is evident, however, that for a while already in the sixth century Island artists had experimented with the harder materials then being employed for engraved seals in Greece; and with some shapes which seem to compromise between the old and the new. These stones seem to belong to the middle and second half of the sixth century. A list follows:(i) Oxford 1925.129. plate I. Green steatite tapered scaraboid with convex face. L. 20 (mm.). A lion. IGems no. 349, fig. 6, pl. 13.(ii) Athens, from Sunium. plate I. Green steatite. Shape as the last. L. 20. Contorted bull-headed man. IGems no. 350, pl. 13.(iii) Paris, Bibl. Nat., ex Louvre C 8514. Rock crystal plump lentoid. W. 18. Summary representation of a winged horse.(iv) Boston 27.678 (once Bruschi, Warren), plate I. Chalcedony lentoid with domed back and shallow convex face. W. 21. Facing head of a satyr with fillet ends behind the ears and an arrow marking at the centre of the forehead.

Through Children’s Eyes

Journal Article Through Children’s Eyes Get access Through Children’s Eyes. By Blanche C. Weill, Ed. D. Cloth. Price, $2.75. Pp. 365. New York: Island Workshop Press, Co-op., Inc., 1940. Physical Therapy, Volume 21, Issue 4, July 1941, Page 224, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/21.4.224b Published: 01 July 1941

A PROCHLORITE BANNERSTONE WORKSHOP

O NE and a half miles below the aboriginal workshop on Mt. Johnson Island in the Susquehanna River, described in the October-December, 1921, number of the American Anthropologist, is another bannerstone workshop. This one is located on the east bank of the Susquehanna below Peach Bottom, Lancaster County, Pa. It does not compare in size with the one formerly described, where hundreds of slate bannerstones were shaped; neither was the same material used nor did the same shape of bannerstone prevail. While at the island workshop almost all of the unfinished specimens found were of slate and of the winged type with well-defined centrums; those found at the lower workshop were made of prochlorite and usually of a doubleconvex form truncated at top and bottom or bottom only and without any pronounced centrum. Prochlorite is a soft green stone containing crystals of magnetite. When found in situ it usually occurs contiguous to steatite and is sometimes wrongly called green soapstone. While this material was chosen for making bannerstones, partly because of the ease and safety with which it was worked, the magnetite crystals it contains were a factor that entered into the choice. The shining black crystals added materially to the beauty of the finished bannerstone. The nearest source of this material is about five miles down the river, at Bald Friars, Md. No positively aboriginal prochlorite quarry had thus far been identified here; and it is a question whether the Indian needed to quarry the material since there is such an abundance of it found along a small stream which enters the Susquehanna at this point. However, some of the numerous pits covering the side of Bald Hill may have been made by the Indian in search of prochlorite containing the larger crystals of magnetite. We know from unfinished and broken vessels found that he quarried steatite here