The date of 4000 BCE is based on evidence that includes the appearance of dental pathologies associated with bitting, changes in butchering practices, changes in human economies and settlement patterns, the depiction of horses as symbols of power in artifacts, and the appearance of horse bones in human graves.

Historical studies, official accounts, memoirs and textbooks published in the Soviet Union used that depiction of events until the Soviet Union's dissolution.

Cross-dressing, particularly the depiction of males wearing dresses, is often used for comic effect onstage and onscreen.

The depiction of the goddess Pax-Nemesis, representing subdued vengeance, would be used on the coins of many later emperors.

The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.

The illustration she used of the Cogul painting leaves out a number of figures, human and animal, and the original is more likely a sequence of superimposed but unrelated illustrations, rather than a depiction of a single scene.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

Tertullian, in his De Pudentia ( On Modesty ) 7: 1-4 mentions the depiction of a shepherd on Christian cups, calling to mind the parable of the Good Shepherd and thus used as a symbol for Jesus.

Historical studies, official accounts, memoirs and textbooks published in the Soviet Union used that depiction of events until the Soviet Union's dissolution.

Due to the depiction of the mythological nymphs as females who mate with men or women at their own volition, and are completely outside male control, the term is often used for women who are perceived as behaving similarly.

1548 depiction of a Zweihänder used against pikes in the Battle of Kappel

The Bridge House Estates seal used only the image of Becket, while the reverse featured a depiction of his martyrdom.

Orientalism is a term used by art historians, literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern, and East Asian cultures ( Eastern cultures ) by American and European writers, designers and artists.

It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.

This depiction is consistent with the remains of these birds found at other Israelite Iron Age sites, when the rooster was used as a fighting bird ; they are also pictured on other seals from the period as a symbol of ferocity, such as on the one engraved on a late-seventh-century BC red jasper seal inscribed " Jehoahaz, son of the king ", which likely it belonged to Jehoahaz of Judah " while he was still a prince during his father's life.

The bas-relief in the Arch of Titus has been influential in the depiction of the destruction of Jerusalem, with the Menorah frequently being used to symbolise the looting of the Second Temple.

About 1295 Przemysł II used as a coat of arms with a white eagle – a symbol later referred to as the Piast coat of arms ( see depiction ) or as the Piast Eagle.

It is likely a depiction of a real person with Paget's disease, though it is sometimes said to be a metaphorical portrait of the Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, who was known as Maultasch, which, though literally translated " satchel mouth ", was used to mean " ugly woman " or " whore " ( because of her marital scandals ).

The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the inspiration typically used in the depiction of Erzulie Dantor

A depiction of an adze was also used as a hieroglyph, representing the consonants stp, " chosen ", and used as: ... Pharaoh XX, chosen of God / Goddess YY ...

The castle's 15th-century gatehouse, in a 19th-century depiction by an unknown artist, with new inmates arriving at the castle when it was used as a prison.

In the later sixties, perhaps due to the depiction in films of hippie culture, the term was used much less specifically to mean any gathering of interest, from a pool hall meetup or a jamming of a few young people to a beer blast or fancy formal party.

The depiction of Sigurd slaying the dragon by striking with the sword from below is one of the iconography used to identify those Viking Age images which depict the Sirgurd legend.

Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world — it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art.

Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

It captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space ; their depiction of a cratered, seemingly dead world largely changed the view of the scientific community on life on Mars.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

The bottom portion of the west side of the cross features a depiction of a long-haired female, kneeling figure holding an object above another prostrate, bound figure.

Severin also discusses another publicised case of a marooned man named only as Will, of the Miskito people of Central America, who may have led to the depiction of Man Friday.

* In the original Foundation Trilogy, there is no indication of Trantor being divided among wildly diverse cultures, likewise, the surface is described as covered with towers rather than domes ; its depiction in Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation may be considered another example of retconning.

Most of the criticism was over Taylor's arguments for appeasement as a rational political strategy, his mechanistic portrayal of a world destined for another world war by post-war settlement of 1918 – 1919, his depiction of the Second World War as an " accident " caused by diplomatic blunders, his portrayal of Hitler as a " normal leader " and what many considered his flippant dismissal of Nazi ideology as a motivating force.

The back cover is a digitally modified depiction of another snowscape with fires raging through fields.

The famous danse macabre, with its dancing depiction of the Grim Reaper carrying off rich and poor alike, is another well-known example of the memento mori theme.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

The depiction of a society as a collection of socially differentiated groups with distinct subcultural perspectives that lead some of these groups into conflict with the law is another form of cultural disorganization, is typically called cultural conflict.

" He went on to praise Eastwood's depiction of a half-gangster / half-cowboy and noted the plethora of violent spectacles as another distinction in the film.

Bandua or Bandi is another with numerous dedications: the name is male in most inscriptions and yet the only depiction being female, it seems the name referred to numerous deities, especially since Bandi / Bandue often carries an epithet associating the name with that of a town or other location such as Bandua Roudaeco, Etobrico or Brealiacui.

The same is true for Pratham Alo ( also translated recently by Aruna Chakravorty as First Light ), another best selling historical fiction and Purbo-Paschim, a raw depiction of the partition and its aftermath seen through the eyes of three generations of Bengalis in West Bengal, Bangladesh and elsewhere.

In January 2006, Warrior filed another lawsuit against WWE in an Arizona court over the depiction of his wrestling career in The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior DVD.

An " In The Style Of " is, as the name implies, a depiction of a game in the style of something else ; most often another game.

Honthorst became especially noted for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, receiving the nickname " Gherardo delle Notti " ( Gerard of the night ), Cardinal Scipio Borghese was another important patron who secured important commisssions for him at San Silvesto Della Mariro, Montecompatri, and at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

One of the most notorious works from his first exhibition in Paris was The Guitar Lesson ( 1934 ), which caused controversy due to its sexually explicit depiction of a girl arched on her back over the lap of her female teacher, whose hands are positioned on the girl as for playing the guitar: one near her exposed crotch, another grasping her hair.

It begins with a depiction of the state of nature, wherein individuals are under no obligation to obey one another but are each themselves judge of what the law of nature requires.

Wong cites another writer, Jeffrey Paul Chan as saying that he “ attributes the popularity of The Woman Warrior to its depiction of ‘ female anger ,’ which bolsters white feminists ’ ‘ hallucination ’ of a universal female condition …”

The film blurs the line between what is real and what is fiction in its depiction of a film within a film ( and possibly within another ).

An example of the gore effects The series ' focal point, graphic depiction of human bodily dismemberment, makes another appearance in Soldier of Fortune II.