luideag
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luideag [ScG dim of
luid, rag, slovenly person]. Murderous female demon of Scottish Gaelic oral tradition, related to the fearful
athach. Squalid in appearance as she was evil, the luideag haunted several pools on the Isle of
Skye, especially the Lochan of the Black Trout. Folk motifs: G11.3; G346.2.
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Rethinking the Timing of the Clovis Culture
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 2/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Rethinking the Timing of the Clovis Culture Host: RENEE MONTAGNE...ago. And he says, the culture was around for much less...thought. Mr. WATERS: Clovis only lasted for about...lot of problems for the Clovis first model. HARRIS...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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NEW CLUES TO OLDEST AMERICANS BRAZILIAN CAVE YIELDS ARTWORK, WEAPONRY THAT SEPARATE CULTURE FROM CLOVIS HUNTERS.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/19/1996; 700+ words
; ...first major New World culture in the U.S. Southwest...arrowheads found near Clovis, N.M. Clovis points have been found...the idea that most human cultures in the New World originated from the Clovis settlements. ``The...
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New age for ancient Americans.(clovis culture)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 3/3/2007; 599 words
; ...overlap with the revised Clovis dates. The scientists...World before purveyors of Clovis culture showed up along the same...It's unlikely that Clovis people entered North...then founded different cultures down to the southern...
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Who was Zol?(fictional character depicts life in Clovis culture of North America before the ice age)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 1/1/1997; 544 words
; Zol was a Clovis boy whose people lived in North America...in excavations, scientists think that Clovis people hunted woolly mammoths with stonetipped...helpless to defend themselves. Or perhaps Clovis hunters learned from the wolves how to...
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Brazilian culture comes to Clovis.
Newspaper article from: Portales News-Tribune (Portales, NM); 2/8/2007; 676 words
; ...portray Brazilian culture during a 90-minute...School Auditorium in Clovis. Founded in 1997...Afro-Brazilian cultures, through dance...Afro-Brazilian culture in Los Angeles...performance is part of the Clovis Community College...Brazilian dance and culture. Twenty-five...available at ...
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Clovis E. Semmes. The Regal Theater and Black Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Clovis E. Semmes. The Regal Theater and Black Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 294. $69.95. Clovis E. Semmes, the author of The Regal Theater and Black Culture, is a sociologist by training. His...
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COMET THEORY COLLIDES WITH CLOVIS RESEARCH, MAY EXPLAIN DISAPPEARANCE OF ANCIENT PEOPLE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...these Redstone points than Clovis ones," Goodyear said...because if the Redstone culture simply came right after the Clovis culture you'd expect at...finding evidence of a pre-Clovis culture earlier than the accepted...
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Clovis Blade Technology: A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...welcome addition to the growing literature about Clovis culture. Collins rightly points out that Clovis blades...cores and blades are distinctive markers of Clovis culture, almost as distinctive as Clovis points themselves. And second, most researchers...
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Clovis not first Americans, study says.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 2/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...And it now appears that the Clovis culture bloomed and vanished in just two...of Nature & Science. The Clovis culture was named for distinctive stone...found with mammoth remains near Clovis, N.M., in 1933. The tapered...
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Americas' 1st people rethought; New dating methods reveal Clovis migration theory flaws
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...s more likely that the Clovis technology came to the...be people here before" Clovis for such a rapid transmission...which demonstrates that Clovis as a culture is not alone and that there were antecedent cultures." He added that the...
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Clovis culture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Clovis culture a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas...first excavated in the early 1930s near Clovis, N.Mex. The artifacts, including chipped flint points known as Clovis points and a variety of additional stone...
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Clovis Point
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...Archeologists and scholars refer to this people as a Clovis culture or civilization. The Clovis groups were succeeded by the Folsom culture...Mexico. The Folsom point was smaller than the Clovis, had a concave (rounded inward) base, and...
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Clovis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Clovis2 a Palaeo-Indian culture of Central and North America...years ago and earlier. The culture is distinguished by heavy leaf-shaped stone spearheads (Clovis points), often found in conjunction...culture was first found near Clovis in eastern New Mexico, US...
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Folsom culture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Folsom culture , a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory...Central Plains of North America from Montana to Texas. Like Clovis points (see Clovis culture ), Folsom points show a distinct lengthwise groove (known as...
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antiquity and prehistory of the Americas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...best known Paleo-Indian culture is that of the fluted-point hunters (see Clovis culture and Folsom culture...America were identified as the Clovis and Folsom fluted-point...existence of an earlier, pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas...
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