Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1, 000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

The oldest Christian paintings we have are from the Roman Catacombs, dated to about AD 200, and the oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 3rd century.

Davy was also a painter and three of his paintings dating from circa 1796 have been donated to the Penlee House museum at Penzance.

Further back, dating to around 15, 000 BC to 8000 BC, single-stringed instruments have been seen in cave paintings and murals.

The mural paintings at the Hermitage of San Baudelio de Berlanga, in Soria, dating from the 12th century show a hunting scene with three Galgos apparently identical to the ones that we can see today.

The Cave of Chauvet in the Ardèche département, France, contains the most important cave paintings of the paleolithic era, dating from about 31, 000 BCE.

Dendrochronology has become important to art historians in the dating of panel paintings, and can also provide information as to the source of the panel — many Early Netherlandish paintings have turned out to be painted on panels of " Baltic oak " shipped from the Vistula region via ports of the Hanseatic League.

The entrance to the Cosquer Cave, decorated with paintings of penguins, bison, seals and outlines of hands dating to 27, 000 to 19, 000 BC, is located 37 meters under the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near Cassis.

Its walls are covered with paintings and engravings dating back to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC, depicting animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, as well as sea mammals such as seals, and at least one bird, the auk.

Artists have been painting in Provence since prehistoric times ; paintings of bisons, seals, penguins and horses dating to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC were found in the Cosquer Cave near Marseille.

The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

There are numerous Aboriginal sites in the park including paintings at Yankee Hat dating from at least 800 years ago.

The interior, with a nave and four aisles, contains paintings dating to the 11th century and frescoes from the 14th.

It has interesting paintings, dating from the end of the 11th century to the middle of the 12th, in which five different styles may be distinguished.

Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2, 300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.

The church also contains a scheme of wall paintings dating from the 14th century, the most readable of which depicts the Seven Works of Mercy.

* Glasgow School, a circle of painters dating to the 1880s & 1890s who were influenced by the " plein-air " landscape paintings of the Barbizon School

In notes dating from 1525 to 1543 he identifies twelve paintings and one drawing as by Giorgione, of which five of the paintings are identified virtually unanimously with surviving works by art historians: The Tempest, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, Boy with an Arrow, and Shepherd with a Flute ( not all accept the last as by Giorgione however ).

They are one of the main aids in dating the paintings.

Aschaffenburg's chief buildings are the Schloss Johannisburg, built 1605 – 1614 by Archbishop Schweikard von Kronberg, which contains a library with a number of incunabula, a collection of engravings and paintings ; the Pompejanum, a replica of a Roman town house discovered in Pompeii commissioned by King Ludwig I. and opened in 1850 ; the Stiftskirche basilica, founded in 974 by Otto of Swabia, duke of Bavaria, but dating in the main from the early 12th century on, in which are preserved various monuments by the Vischers, a sarcophagus with the relics of Saint Margaret, and a famous painting by Matthias Grünewald ; the Capuchin hospital ; a theatre, which was formerly a house of the Teutonic Order ; several mansions of the nobility ; and the beautiful, historical " Altstadt " ( the oldest section of Aschaffenburg ).

The oldest surviving Christian paintings are from the site at Megiddo, dated to around the year 70, and the oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 2nd century.

The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the Hutchinson system of plant taxonomy when it contained only five families, of which only two are retained in the APG III classification.

The dating of this is uncertain, as are his enemies ' identity.

There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.

Neighbouring St Fillan's Church is one of the best-preserved medieval parish churches in Scotland, dating largely to the 12th century.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Kiernan ’ s argument against an early dating based on a mixture of forms is long and involved, but he concludes that the mixture of forms points to a comparatively straightforward history of the written text as:

The dating of events in the Chronicle is inconsistent with his other works, using the era of creation, the anno mundi.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

One boomerang that was discovered in Jaskinia Obłazowa in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of mammoth's tusk and is believed, based on AMS dating of objects found with it, to be about 30, 000 years old.

This early dating is centered on the preterist interpretation of chapter 17, where the seven heads of the " beast " are regarded as the succession of Roman emperors up to the time of the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, Caligula through Vespasian.

The disease has a history of use in biological warfare dating back many centuries, and is considered a threat due to its ease of culture and ability to remain in circulation among local rodents for a long period of time.

The greatest clue as to its dating may lie in the fact that the Persian-era term for governor ( pehâ ) is used in 1: 8.

Zechariah is specific about dating his writing ( 520-518 BCE ).

Though the exact dating is disputed, it is not regarded as authentic by any scholar.

It is the oldest north – south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

Because the fossil record of chordates is poor, only molecular phylogenetics offers a reasonable prospect of dating their emergence.

However, the use of molecular phylogenetics for dating evolutionary transitions is controversial.

In one archaic usage, " common law " is used to refer to certain customs in England dating to before the Norman conquest and before there was any consistent law to be applied.

Scotland is often said to use the civil law system but it has a unique system that combines elements of an uncodified civil law dating back to the Corpus Juris Civilis with an element of common law long predating the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 ( see Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages ).

The original work of Eudoxus is lost, but it survives as a versification by Aratus, dating to the 3rd century BC.

While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).