Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

Early pottery was painted with spirals, zigzags, dots, or animals.

Her excavation of the Early Bronze Age walled city and the external cemeteries of the end of the Early Bronze Age, together with her analysis of the stratified pottery of these periods established her as the leading authority on that period.

Early Japanese societies used pottery before developing agriculture.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

Early Islamic pottery followed the forms of the regions which the Muslims conquered.

Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place.

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Other finds are now held at the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff: Early Bronze Age, or Beaker, collared urn pottery ; flaked knives ; a scraper ; flint flakes ; a bone spatula ; a needle & bead ; and animal bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog.

Early " stone age art " dates back to 10, 000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures.

The polychrome pottery characteristic of the Jemdet Nasr period ( 3100 – 2900 BC ) below the sediment layer was followed by Early Dynastic I artifacts above the sediment layer.

From the pottery fragments Evans distinguishes Early, Middle and Late Neolithic.

While pottery finds indicate that the site of Sippar was in use as early as the Uruk period, substantial occupation occurred only in the Early Dynastic period of the 3rd millennium BC, the Old Babylonian period of the

Early Bronze Age pottery fragments have been found in the Park Avenue area.

Early in the 20th century, it had large iron and steel works, foundries, coal mines, glassworks, flour and lumber mills, china, pottery, brick, lime, and clay works, mirror and typewriter factories, breweries, etc.

Early on in the town ’ s history, pottery became an important part of Greensboro ’ s economic base, with the first operation owned and operated by Alexander Vance.

Early in the Iron Age, most of the pottery found at Maiden Castle was produced locally – within about – however later on sources further afield became more important, and by the Late Iron Age 95 % of the pottery came from the area around Poole Harbour over away.

" Islamic art developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian art, and Byzantine styles were taken over in early Islamic art and architecture ; the influence of the Sassanian art of pre-Islamic Persia was of paramount significance ; Central Asian styles were brought in with various nomadic incursions ; and Chinese influences had a formative effect on Islamic painting, pottery, and textiles.

Until the Early Modern period Western ceramics had very little influence, but Islamic pottery was very sought after in Europe, and often copied.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Agnostida is an order of arthropod which first developed near the end of the Early Cambrian period and thrived during the Middle Cambrian.

Amber becomes abundant long after the Carboniferous, in the Early Cretaceous,, when it is found in association with insects.

Austin is also home to numerous child developmental institutions including the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, the Central Texas Autism Center, Autism Early Learning Center, Johnson Center for Child Health and Development and many more.

Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age.

The European season usually starts in late April or Early May and is usually over by mid October.

Early research on the role of antioxidants in biology focused on their use in preventing the oxidation of unsaturated fats, which is the cause of rancidity.

Early episodes also contained several references to Eureka Springs, which is in northwest Arkansas.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Early detection and rapid response to bioterrorism depend on close cooperation between public health authorities and law enforcement ; however, such cooperation is currently lacking.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

Early BOFH editions took place in a university, moving on to an office workplace over time ( an exact transition is not given ).

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

In the Pauline Epistles the word Christ is so closely associated with Jesus that it is apparent that for the Early Christians there is no need to claim that Jesus is Christ, for that is considered widely accepted among them.

There were many diverse Christian communities with wildly different Christologies, eschatologies, soteriologies, and cosmologies that existed alongside the " Early Church " which is itself a projected concept to indicate which communities were " proto-orthodox ," in that their views would become dominate.

Early experiments are often designed to provide mean-unbiased estimates of treatment effects and of experimental error.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button .< ref >* Patrick Stack.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early endosomes are often located in the periphery of the cell, and receive most types of vesicles coming from the cell surface.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

Early heavy machine guns were often water-cooled ; while very effective, the water also added considerable weight to an already bulky design.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of contemporary artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early science fiction about Mars often involved the first voyages to the planet, sometimes as an invasion force, more often for the purposes of exploration.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Early contact was often charged with tension and emotion, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).