However, now that the archeological archives and research results of the former USSR are open to scientists, it has become quite clear that the primal sighthound type evolved between the Kyrgyzstan, the lower Kazakhstan part of Altai and the Afghan plains, and that the earliest actual sighthound breeds were the plains Afghan hounds and the Kyrgyz Taigan.

However, throughout history there have been exceptions, with Mutt and Jeff being an early ( if not the earliest ) case in which the creator owned his works.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

However this first verse does not occur in the earliest known version from the Guodian Chu Slips and there is speculation that it may have been added by later commentators.

However, most contemporary scholars now regard it as the earliest of the canonical gospels ( c 70 ).

However, the type used in Gutenberg's earliest work shows other variations.

However, the earliest European reference to the kora in Western literature is in Travels in Interior Districts of Africa ( 1799 ) by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

However, sexologists Richard von Krafft-Ebbing from Germany, and Britain's Havelock Ellis wrote some of the earliest and more enduring categorizations of female same-sex attraction, approaching it as a form of insanity.

However, the earliest known recording of the name is from the Bible which was in existence before the Latin language was prominent.

However, A. R. Braunmuller in the New Cambridge edition finds the 1605 – 6 arguments inconclusive, and argues only for an earliest date of 1603.

However, the earliest uses of MUSH servers were for roleplaying and socializing, and these early trends have largely governed their descendants.

However, the earliest known idea to indicate the possibility of diseases spreading by yet unseen organisms was that of the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in a 1st century BC book titled On Agriculture in which he warns against locating a homestead near swamps:

However, it is estimated that shoes may have been used long before this, but it is difficult to find evidence of the earliest footwear due to the highly perishable nature of early shoes.

However, the earliest written document mentioning a tarot-like card set occurs as early as 1227, and it says that " Italian children are instructed in the knowledge of the virtues via sheets ( cards ) denominated carticellas ".

However, if the ka was not properly prepared, this journey could be fraught with dangerous pitfalls and strange demons ; hence some of the earliest religious texts discovered, such as the Papyrus of Ani ( commonly known as The Book of the Dead ) and the Pyramid Texts were actually written as guides to help the deceased successfully navigate the duat.

However, the earliest certain evidence of human settlement in the region of Sparta consists of pottery dating from the Middle Neolithic period, found in the vicinity of Kouphovouno some two kilometres south-southwest of Sparta.

However, white explorers may not have been the first to climb many of the peaks and the earliest first ascent of even the formidable Grand Teton itself might have been achieved long before written history documented it.

However, without dedicated transport vessels, the cohesion-tension mechanism cannot transport water more than about 2 cm, severely limiting the size of the earliest plants.

However, Eusebius of Caesarea, ( AD 260 – 340 ), one of the earliest and most comprehensive of church historians, wrote of Christ's disciples in Demonstratio Evangelica, saying that " some have crossed the Ocean and reached the Isles of Britain.

However, the revolution in the study of gamma-ray bursts motivated the development of a number of additional instruments designed specifically to explore the nature of GRBs, especially in the earliest moments following the explosion.

However, the earliest documentary reference to sampler making is recorded in 1502 The household expense accounts of Elizabeth of York record that:

However, this theory fails to account for the existence — even in the earliest recorded examples of scatting — of free improvisation by the vocalist.

However, their accuracy for the earliest period is uncertain, and a much debated topic among modern historians.

However, in the same article cited above, Bailey contends that free improvisation must have been the earliest musical style, because " mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

However, about 80 % of his plays have been lost and even the extant plays don't present a fully consistent picture of his ' spiritual ' development ( for example, Iphigenia at Aulis is dated with the ' despairing ' Bacchae, yet it contains elements that became typical of New Comedy ).

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

'" However, the quoted words are not found in Hesiod's extant work.

For the Jews slew him, although he was a most just man .” However, this statement does not appear in the extant manuscripts of Josephus.

However, when they were finally launched to Mars, the Viking probes still searched ( unsuccessfully ) for extant life there.

However there are fewer extant documents written in this language than those written in Latin and German from the time of Vytautas.

However, all perissodactyls, extinct and extant, have a mesaxonic foot structure.

However, the tendentious letter is not found quoted in early extant Carmelite texts, raising the question whether it was ever issued.

However, on November 5, 2002, the Galileo orbiter made a targeted flyby that came within 160 km of Amalthea and the deflection of its orbit was used to compute the moon's mass ( its volume had been calculated previously — to within 10 % or so — from a careful analysis of all extant images ).

However, there is no extant evidence of this.

However, according to a survey of the extant Six Dynasties ' sculpture in the Nanjing and Danyang areas, only one of the extant Six Dynasties ' tomb sculptural groups has been securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of the first emperor of the dynasty.

However, the Yeti is generally described as bipedal, and most scientists believe Gigantopithecus to have been quadrupedal, and so massive that, unless it evolved specifically as a bipedal ape ( like Oreopithecus and the hominids ), walking upright would have been even more difficult for the now extinct primate than it is for its extant quadrupedal relative, the orangutan.

However, no cuneiform texts describing the Hanging Gardens are extant, and no definitive archaeological evidence concerning its whereabouts has been found.

However, many extant manuscripts show no tendency towards vocalization.

However, the earliest source for Cerdic, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was put together in the late ninth century ; though it probably does record the extant tradition of the founding of Wessex, the intervening four hundred years mean that the account cannot be assumed to be accurate.

However, no existing ( or extant ) placental mammal has this number.

However, an examination of the extant homes can be equally illuminating.

However, the picture is complicated by modern doubts about the authenticity of the extant verses, some or all being dated by various scholars to the fifth or fourth century BC.

However, the country ’ s oldest extant community theatre group, The Footlight Club, has existed since the 19th century and performed every year since 1877.

) However, Clement used only about two dozen verses from Mark — almost all from chapter 10 — in his major writings, and Origen, in his major extant works, failed to use over 30 other 12-verse sections of Mark.

However, Papillon himself used de la Mare's work for his account of Salmasius in his Bibliothèque des auteurs de Bourgogne — by far the best extant.

However, his name does not appear on extant pieces of the Royal Annals ( Cairo Stone and Palermo Stone ), which is a now-fragmentary king's list that was carved onto a stela during the Fifth dynasty.

However, numerous extant Roman buildings which feature much heavier stone blocks than those handled by the polyspastos indicate that the overall lifting capability of the Romans went far beyond that of any single crane.