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caryatid
[Co].
The sculptured female figure used in place of a column to support an entablature or architrave. Some of the earliest known examples were used in the treasury at Delphi and date to the 6th century
bc
.
cashel
[MC].
Irish term for a substantial fortified hilltop settlement or hillfort of the 1st millennium
ad
, often reflected in the name of the site. The most famous example is Cashel, Co. Tipperary, home to the Eoghanacht dynasties of the 4th and 5th centuries
ad
, led by Conall Corc . Later, St Patrick consecrated the hill and established the site as a bishopric.
Cashibocaña Phase
[CP].
South American cultural grouping found in the Rio Ucayali area of Amazonia in the period
c.
ad 500–700. Defined by its ceramics which belong to the Polychrome Horizon of painted wares. Vessels include lidded urns, large plates, and anthropomorphic burial urns.
Casper, Wyoming, USA
[Si].
Bison kill site dating to about 6000 bc. Plano hunters stampeded a herd of about 100 bison and trapped them in a steep-sided U-shaped arrangement of sand dunes from which they were unable to escape. Once trapped in this way, the hunters dispatched the beasts using spears.
[Rep.: G. C. Frison , 1974,
The Casper site
. New York: Academic Press]
Cassiodorus , Flavian Magnus Aurelius
[Na].
Roman senator and apologist who retired from official life in ad 537 and later founded a monastery in southern Italy which did much to preserve the manuscripts of classical authors. Died
c.
ad 583.
Cassius Dio , Cocceianus
[Na].

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