The earliest anchors were probably rocks, and many rock anchors have been found dating from at least the Bronze Age.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

In some Maastrichtian stage rock layers from various parts of the world, the later layers are terrestrial ; earlier layers represent shorelines and the earliest layers represent seabeds.

The hard rock band KISS was also one of his earliest grade school musical influences and his shows often reflected this.

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

The earliest form of punk rock, named protopunk in retrospect, started as a garage rock revival in the northeastern United States in the late 1960s.

Many of the earliest white rock and roll hits were covers or partial re-writes of earlier black rhythm and blues or blues songs.

The most famous of these is the Laas Gaal complex, which contains some of the earliest known rock art on the African continent.

The earliest remains consist of extensive rock cut installations, initially thought to date to the Early Bronze Age by Kenyon, these have recently been re-evaluated, first by Stager and then by Franklin, and are now recognized to be the remains of an extensive early Iron Age oil and wine industry ( designated Building Period 0 ).

The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 3rd century BCE.

In the later periods of the 1940s, less swing was prominent and crooners like Frank Sinatra, along with genres such as bebop and the earliest traces of rock and roll, were the prevalent genre.

Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating more diverse and innovative styles in their music.

The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets ( and variations thereof ), was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world.

This was the earliest known theatrical rock and roll film release.

In 1956 the group appeared in two of the earliest full-length rock and roll movies: Rock Around the Clock, and Don't Knock the Rock.

) The track " Toad " contained one of the earliest examples of a drum solo in rock music.

Ptolemy ( c. 83 – c. 168 ) refers to a settlement of the Votadini known to the Romans as " Alauna ", meaning " rock place ", which may be the earliest known name for the Castle Rock.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

Along with being among the earliest punk rock groups to incorporate elements and the influence of heavy metal melodies and rhythm, there were often overt freestyles, free jazz, breakbeat and contemporary classical elements in their sound, especially in Ginn's guitar playing, and the band interspersed records and performances with instrumentals throughout their career.

The earliest stars were an imitation of French pop, at the time itself an imitation of American and British pop and rock.

Hard rock ( or heavy rock ) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

The Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest written mention of sushi in English in an 1893 book, A Japanese Interior, where it mentions sushi as " a roll of cold rice with fish, sea-weed, or some other flavoring ".

This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag ( as " Wine ").

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.

The earliest description of tabula is in an epigram of Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( 476 – 481 ), given by Agathias of Myrine ( 527 – 567 ), who describes a game in which Zeno goes from a strong position to a very weak one after an unfortunate dice roll.

The earliest Polaroids ( pre-1963 ) used instant roll film, which has since been discontinued.

The earliest rock and roll band from Fremont, Nebraska was The Nomads, followed by The Sneakers, The Fugitives, The Invaders and The Brackmen.

Also cited was the consist switch that would take place ( shuffling sleeper and coach positions so that the transition sleeper was in the rear ), an eight-hour layover on Sundays due to the Pennsylvanians 1: 20p departure ( since eliminated ), and the lack of Viewliner sleepers to accommodate the service ( also cited are that the new ones would not roll out until 2012 at the very earliest ).

" and " Boogie Woogie Yodel " have often been cited as featuring the earliest recorded performances by future rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley, who was a member of the group in 1946.

Early letters were carried in the form of a roll, with a wax or lead seal ; the earliest known of these seals dates from 1079, and mentions a governor Ratibor of Tmutarakan.

The earliest known individual of that name in the neighbourhood of West Edinburgh was a William Forrester, Esquire, who appears on the muster roll of the Peel of Linlithgow in 1311.

Among the earliest hulls were simple logs, but these were generally unstable and tended to roll over easily.

The earliest on the statute roll is an Act of Henry III ( 1236 ), enabling a widow to bequeath the crops of her lands.

The book What Was the First Rock ' n ' Roll Record by Jim Dawson and Steve Propes discusses 50 contenders as the " first rock and roll record ", the earliest being " Blues, Part 2 " from the 1944 Jazz at the Philharmonic live album, also featuring Jacquet's saxophone but with an even more " honking " solo.

In 1978 Simpson's celebrated its 150th anniversary with a luncheon consisting of all the items from the earliest recorded menu, starting with turtle soup, going on with roast sirloin of beef and saddle of mutton and ending with boiled syrup roll.

Alongside his legacy in songs and movies Buscaglione deserves mention for having encouraged musicians and singers from the newer generation ( the one influenced by the earliest forms of rock and roll ) to stand up against the conservative producers and discographers of the time, demanding recognition for their art and their style.

The earliest public record of the surname in Britain, after the Battle Abbey roll of 1066, dates to 1138 in Northumberland when Robert Maltalent witnessed a charter of Roger de Mowbray in Yorkshire.

Acting orders of characters are determined by a d20 die roll for all participants, which determines the earliest phase in which a character can act.