The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by the appearance of iconographic expressions most often depicting animals, including anthropomorphic forms, and geometric signs. The Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian saw a flourishing of such depictions, encompassing cave...
Discoveries from La Manche: Five Years of Early Prehistoric Research in the Channel Island of Jersey
Since 2010 a new field project drawn from major UK institutions including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has focused research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic record of the Channel Island of Jersey. In this retrospective of five years of research the history of...
Full mindfulness-teacher training pathway and courses on pain management programmes: why it may all be worth it
Pain Management Programmes (PMPs). PMPs are the gold standard biopsychosocial treatment for persistent pain as advocated by international specialist MDT pain research and the British Pain Society (BPS). There is a growing appetite for the provision of mindfulness...
Local needs assessment 2022 – Jersey
This Local Needs Assessment is the first to be undertaken in Jersey by a non-Government organisation and provides a baseline from which JCF can: better target and allocate funding to address the needs of the Island, assess progress over time, build a stronger story...
A new view from La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey
Did Neanderthal hunters drive mammoth herds over cliffs in mass kills? Excavations at La Cotte de St Brelade in the 1960s and 1970s uncovered heaps of mammoth bones, interpreted as evidence of intentional hunting drives. New study of this Middle Palaeolithic coastal...
The Impact of a Jersey Health Campaign on Fentanyl Prescribing after a Cluster of Six Deaths Caused by Fentanyl Patch Abuse and the Subsequent Cessation of Further Fatalities
This Research Poster was presented at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) conference, Monteral, Canada, 2010. Deaths attributed to the illicit extraction and overdose from fentanyl patches have been reported mostly in the USA and Canada and much...