(1) It may be significant that Clovis was murdered at about this time, apparently at Fredegund's instigation.

(2) The Clovis record has stood since the late 1930s, though numerous contenders for evidence of earlier human habitation have arisen.

(3) This sees Clovis as converting directly from paganism to catholicism, without ever being influenced by the arian heresy.

(4) In the same year Clovis received some recognition from the emperor Anastasius.

(5) As he marched south Clovis was careful not to alienate the catholic Church or its saints.

(6) In so doing Clovis is thought to have been unique among the kings of the continental successor states.

(7) For the stunt, De Cagny trained Clovis to slink low to the ground with thick smoke overhead.

(8) These Paleo-Indians, of the Clovis culture, used the significant amounts of obsidian found in the park to make such cutting tools and weapons.

(9) The Clovis culture disappears dramatically from the archaeological record 12,900 years ago.

(10) We know there were people who pre-dated the Clovis culture who were butchering mammoths in the area.

(11) The Clovis people were believed to be the first to colonise North America after emigrating from Asia, and are said to be the ancestors of all present day Native American tribes.

(12) It was this warming that gave the Clovis people and their prey a chance to thrive.

(13) Clovis Man, It'seems , was a Johnny - come - lately after all.

(14) Royal Ideology Gregory was not greatly impressed by most of the sons and grandsons of Clovis, but there were exceptions.

(15) The great Frankish leader who unified the confederacy into a powerful entity was Clovis(), first of the Merovingian kings.

(16) Evidence of mammoths and other megafauna and early human hunters, known as the Clovis culture, are found beneath the black mat but are missing entirely within or above it.

(17) Some textbooks start with prehistory, others with the Roman conquest, others still with Clovis, Charlemagne or Hugh Capet (all mentioned below).

(18) Their data support the idea that there were people in America before Clovis.

(19) But Dr Kennett notes that present - day bison are not like the ones the Clovis people hunted.

(20) She refused to fall in , however , with Clovis 's tempting suggestion of a primeval dance party.

(21) Moreover, Solutrean culture ended 17,000 years ago, at least 5,000 years before the first evidence of Clovis culture.

(22) The discoveries in Texas are seen as compelling evidence that the so-called Clovis culture does not represent America's original immigrants.

(23) Professor Eske Willerslev, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, who led the research, said: "It is proof that other hunters were present at least 1, 000 years prior to the Clovis culture.