Although traditional, the use of leisters to aid capture is no longer permitted (presumably for safety reasons).
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View west along MD 849 at MD 482 in Mexico Maryland Route 849 is the unsigned designation for the section of Leisters Church Road between MD 852 and MD 482 in Mexico.
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A leister used for spearfishing A leister is a type of spear used for spearfishing. Leisters are three-pronged with backward-facing barbs, historically often built using materials such as bone and ivory, with tools such as the saw-knife. In many cases it could be disassembled into a harpoon allowing for greater functionality. Leisters have been used by hunter-gatherer cultures throughout the world since the Stone Age and are still used for fishing by indigenous tribes and cultures today.
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After MD 87 was removed from the state highway system in 1956, MD 482 was extended west to MD 31 along Leisters Church Road. The state highway was relocated to its present alignment west of Leisters Church Road in 1960 concurrent with the relocation of MD 31 between Westminster and Manchester; the old alignment became MD 849. MD 482 was relocated when its roundabout at the MD 30 Hampstead Bypass was constructed in 2009 concurrent with the completion of the bypass.
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They are also called leisters or gigs. They feature widely in early mythology and history. Modern spears can be used with a speargun. Some spearguns use slings (or rubber loops) to propel the spear.
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Sometime after the eleventh century a band of Mac-an-leistears settled in Glen Orchy, Argyll. There they became arrow makers to the Clan MacGregor. Other small groups of Mac-an- leisters settled in glens that belonged to other clans, in order to make arrows for them. The first recorded clan chief was Angus Mac-an-leister, who was born in about 1450.
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During the Jacobite rising of 1715 Archibald, ninth chief of the clan led the Mac-an- leisters in support of the Jacobites, as did his younger brother John during the Jacobite rising of 1745. However, during "the 45" the elder brother who was the chief, provided some men for the British-Hanoverian forces under his Campbell overlords and in doing so avoided forfeiture.
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The Cades Pond culture is distinguished by its pottery and stone tools, and by the siting of its villages. Pottery found at Cades Pond sites consists primarily of large, undecorated bowls. Stone tools include hafted knives and scraping tools, perforators, triangular knives, manos and metates and sandstone abraders. Bone tools include double-pointed leisters, splinter awls, perforators, flakers, deer ulna awls, scrapers or fleshers, punches, and fids.
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View west along MD 482 in Hampstead MD 482 begins at an intersection with MD 27 (Manchester Road) in Mexico. The roadway continues west as Guadelupe Drive into the residential community of New Mexico. In Mexico, MD 482 intersects Old Manchester Road, which is unsigned MD 852G, and Leisters Church Road, which heads west as unsigned MD 849. The state highway heads east as a two-lane undivided road through farmland that traverses Aspen Run and the East Branch of the North Branch of the Patapsco River.
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MD 852G begins at an intersection with MD 27 (Manchester Road) just north of the latter highway's crossing of the Maryland Midland Railway. MD 852G heads southeast as a two-lane undivided road to the intersection of MD 852H (Cranberry Road North) and Lucabaugh Mill Road, where the state highway picks up MD 31's old alignment and crosses Cranberry Branch. MD 852G curves to the northeast and passes through a mix of farmland and scattered residences. In the village of Mexico, the state highway intersects MD 482 (Hampstead Mexico Road) and that highway's old alignment, MD 849 (Leisters Church Road).
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The first improved highway east from Mexico was MD 87, which was constructed in 1925 along Leisters Church Road from Old Manchester Road--which was then MD 31 and now MD 852G--in Mexico southeast approximately . MD 482 proper was constructed from MD 87 east to near Brodbeck Road and from MD 30 in Hampstead west to east of the East Branch of the North Branch of the Patapsco River by 1933. The eastern section of the state highway was extended west over the East Branch in 1936. The two sections of MD 482 were united when the middle section was improved in 1947.
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Some harpoon fragments are speculated to have been leisters or tridents, and true harpoons are commonly found along seasonal salmon migration routes. At some point in time, EEMH domesticated the dog, probably as a result of a symbiotic hunting relationship. DNA evidence suggests that present-day dogs split from wolves around the beginning of the LGM. However, potential Palaeolithic dogs have been found preceding this—namely the 36,000 year old Goyet dog from Belgium and the 33,000 year old Altai dog from Siberia—which could indicate there were multiple attempts at domesticating European wolves. refer Supplementary material Page 27 Table S1 These "dogs" had a wide size range, from over in height in Eastern Europe to less than 30–45 cm (1 ft–1 ft 6 in) in Central and Western Europe, and in all of Europe.
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