The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Early experiments in color required extremely long exposures ( hours or days for camera images ) and could not " fix " the photograph to prevent the color from quickly fading when exposed to white light.

Early friction matches made with white phosphorus as well as those made from phosphorus sesquisulfide could be struck on any suitable surface.

Early portraits of the goddess depict Britannia as a beautiful young woman, wearing the helmet of a centurion, and wrapped in a white garment with her right breast exposed.

Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, clotting factors, and platelets.

Early blackface minstrels were all male, so cross-dressing white men also played black women who were often portrayed either as unappealingly and grotesquely mannish ; in the matronly, mammy mold ; or highly sexually provocative.

Early white settlers were in the county in 1836 and were probably hunters.

Early white settlers during that time were primarily serving as missionaries to the tribes.

Early records say that Father Jacques Marquette, the famous French Jesuit who endeared himself to the Native Indian population of Northern Michigan, planted a huge white cross on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan before his death in 1675.

Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur.

The first mention of Whitkirk itself is in 1154-66 in the Early Yorkshire Charters as ‘ Witechirche ’, meaning ‘ white church ’.

Early 12th-century Annunciation Church was rebuilt and covered with white plaster in 1992.

* 1905 ( French ) La Jeunesse ( black and white 1981, colour 1985 ); published in Italian as La giovinezza ( colour 1983 ); in English as The Early Years

Early ornithological field research revealed no natural crossbreeding among the red and white, lending support to the two-species viewpoint.

Early white pioneers who sought gold, affordable farm land to raise crops, or cheap ranch land to range cattle also avoided the lava fields and considered them useless.

* Early 1990: The Hong Kong public started to become aware of the Chinese white dolphin.

Early Rubik's Revenge cube, with white opposite blue and green opposite yellow

Early white settlers in the area noted the great skill the Klallam used in canoe handling and navigation, and that the Klallam canoes tended to be larger than those used by other Puget Sound tribes.

Early Storm drawings shows her wearing white rather than black.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat female idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south.

Early mariachi players did not look like those of today ; they played only string instruments such as guitars and harps and dressed in typical peasant clothing: white pants and shirts with huarache sandals.

Early in the strip she was deliberately ambiguously colored so as to cloud the issue of whether she was white or black.

* Early sign may be a white patch ( leukoplakia ) or a red patch ( erythroplakia ) on the soft tissues of the mouth

Early Tamil poets speak of Mauryan chariots thundering across the land, their white pennants brilliant in the sunshine.

Early human settlements are believed to have been established on Achill around 3000 BC.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Early settlements in the area of present-day Luxembourg City before the 10th century with the church Saint-Saveur, today St. Micheal, built in 987

Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English, who formed a colony in 1666.

Early Slavonic settlements on the Lech Hill and the Maiden Hill are dated to 8th century.

Volcanic eruptions during the Early, Late and Terminal Formative periods would have blanketed the lands and forced the Olmec to move their settlements.

Developing as small shrines with the earliest settlements, by the Early Dynastic I period, they had become the most imposing structures in their respective cities, each dedicated to its own respective god.

Caskey also stated that Lerna ( along with settlements at Tiryns, Asine in the Argolid, Agios Kosmas near Athens, and perhaps Corinth ) was destroyed at the end of Early Helladic II.

He suggested that the invaders of Early Helladic II settlements may have been Greeks speaking a prototype of the later Greek language.

Although scholars today agree that the Mycenean Greeks descend from the " Minyans " of the Middle Helladic period, they question Caskey's suggestion that ( proto-Greek ) Indo-European invaders destroyed Early Helladic II settlements throughout Greece.

Starting from the Early Uruk period, exercising hegemony over nearby settlements.

Early settlement attempts by the Dutch included Pavonia ( 1633 ), Vriessendael ( 1640 ) and Achter Col ( 1642 ) but the Native Americans repelled these settlements in Kieft's War ( 1643 – 1645 ) and the Peach Tree War ( 1655 – 1660 ).

Excavations have revealed settlements in the area dating from the Early Neolithic, possibly Mesolithic periods.

Early settlements sprung up around waterways, but as the railroad and train depot became a reality in 1879, the town centered around these landmarks.

Early settlements were abandoned during the American Revolution, but the town was re-settled in 1788.

Early settlements in the town were at Bath, Wynantskill, and Defreestville.

Early settlements at the site were used as a staging ground for people taking the Wilderness Road leading to Kentucky through Cumberland Gap.

Early attempts at establishing permanent settlements were failures.

The Early and Middle Jōmon periods saw an explosion in population, as indicated by the number of settlements from this period.

Early Neolithic settlements in Crete include Knossos and Trapeza.

Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Scottish Crannogs, but today it is clear that the majority of settlements was located on the shores of lakes and were only inundated later on.

Early settlements in the region date back to 1000 AD.

Early settlements in the area around Lake Dian date back to Neolithic times.

Early settlements in the region include the Mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons at Midland in 1649, Sault Ste.