Phylogenesis

Waterlogged archaeological site exploration in the Salish Sea of North America has greatly expanded our understanding of this region’s distinct cultural evol-ution. Much of this uniqueness involves ancient weaving traditions, in both basketry and blanket weaving equipment. The twelve main wet sites investi-gated are situated along the entire length of the newly defined Salish Sea, adding never-before-considered cultural historical time-depth complimenting the 2009 application of the Salish Sea name change. This time-depth stimu-lates the question – why has there been considerable continuity of the Salish Sea cultural tradition, as reflected in wet sites, over this vast area?What exchange-of-ideas and products are reflected in the evolution of non-textile versus textile artefacts throughout the region and beyond? The ancient basketry and blanket-weaving traditions in the Salish Sea appear to dis-tinguish it through time from the Northern and Southern Northwest Coast arts and artefact traditions.

The focus of this piece is the complex of practices and their forms. Of particular interest are those that seem to be urgently required to leave behind the fraught state in which the human sociocultural form of life is currently embroiled. As an afterword to an anthology, the reflective task of finding unity among almost forty very diverse chapters is approached through broadening the reference to ‘spirituality’ in the title of the volume by the proposal to analyse the role that the mind – understood in both a micro-macro and an ontogenetic-phylogenetic sense – plays in a variety of different kinds of practices by lending them form. Form is explored through the constitutive and structuring effect of immanent, substantive, cultural models as well as of the immanently rooted yet transcendent, meta-cultural, cognitive order of the sociocultural form of life. In the former case, concrete imaginaries organizing religious, non-theistic, political, aesthetic and subject-forming practices serve as the reference point; and, in the latter case, the largely taken-for-granted presuppositions establishing the meta-context of practices are emphasized. The argument does not for one moment deny the importance that an orientation toward the unconditional as well as self-transformation or subject-formation possess today for the attainment of the urgently needed societal transformation, but it warns against a tendency toward a potentially one-sided understanding of our presuppositions from an exclusively or largely religious or subjective standpoint. Ultimately, the piece seeks to contribute to a fuller understanding of these presuppositions and the dialectical relation between the cognitive order and the cultural models embodied by practices. Such an understanding is indispensable to a social science that is willing to assume responsibility for contributing to the evolution of the sociocultural form of life of which it forms a part.

The calculated addition of 90–95% of the material culture provided by wood and fiber artifacts in wet or waterlogged sites along the Northwest Coast of North America has hugely expanded the understanding of items of daily manufacture and use for at least 9,000 years. To understand the manufacture and use of these “foreign” (to archaeologists) but dominant artifacts, Native Americans now, more than ever, provide a critical analytic and interpretive cultural knowledge. Our recent tribe/college team effort at the Qwu?gwes wet site in Washington State, U.S.A., is one example of how this partnership is not only analytically needed, but also, because of the wet site importance to Native Americans, why archaeologists need to become trained and involved in wet site investigations.

Septfontaine, M. (1970) : Etude micropaléontologique et stratigraphique du Lias sup. et du Dogger des Préalpes médianes romandes (Suisse).- Thèse Univ. Genève
- Domaine d'investigation - Historique - cadre géologique stratigraphique et sédimentologique - Description systématique des foraminifères benthiques du domaine subbriançonnais, bassin des Couches à "Cancellophycus", "rim basin" marge nord de la Téthys - comparaisons avec la microfaune européenne - paléogéographie

Halophilic bacteria were isolated and purified from marine water of Okha region of Gujarat, India and further subjected to screen for extracellular hydrolytic enzyme production. Two strains (R1 & R2) showed extracellular hydrolytic enzyme activities, such as amylases, proteases, lipases and gelatinase, where as optimum activity observed with amylase. They were characterized on the basis of morphology, physiology and biochemical tests. The phylogenetic tree revealed that the strains R1 & R2 fit in to an evolutionary cluster comprising members of Salinicoccus roseus with 99% similarity. 16S rDNA sequence was submitted at NCBI and named as Salinicoccus roseus strain rvscokh1 & rsk1 respectively. The DNA G+C content rvscokh1 & rsk1 was 55.6 & 55.7 mol% respectively. The GenBank accession number of the 16S rDNA sequences of strain rvscokh1 & rsk1 is HQ190916 & HQ258884 respectively. Salinicoccus roseus is gram positive coccus bacteria. Strain rvscokh1 & rsk1 sustain to 10% and 6% NaCl concentration respectively while optimum pH was 7.4 for growth. Optimum amylase activity was found at temperature 37°C, pH 8 and 5% salt concentration for both the strains reveals that these strains can produce potentially industrially important enzymes.

The presence of fungal contaminants in Ofada and Abakaliki rice varieties under storage in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria were examined. The fungal species isolated from the Ofada rice were Actinomycetes spp., Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus tamarii, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, Fusarium compacticum, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium proliferatum, Penicillium