Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

Its placement between Attica and the Peloponnesus made it a center of trade even earlier, and its earliest inhabitants came from Asia Minor.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were probably the Baka ( Pygmies ).

The earliest inhabitants of the islands were probably Arabs and Africans, the latter probably Bantu-speaking ; the earliest evidence of settlement of the islands dates from the eighth century.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

These earliest inhabitants were hunter-gatherers, who made their living from hunting game and gathering edible plants.

The earliest post-glacial inhabitants of the present-day area of Finland were probably mainly seasonal hunter-gatherers.

* The Southern Cushites were the second earliest inhabitants of Kenya after the indigenous Bushman hunter-gatherer groups, and the first of the Cushitic-speaking peoples to migrate from their homeland in the Horn of Africa about 2000 years ago.

The earliest inhabitants of the area that became Karachi included Baloch in the west, and Sindhi tribes such as the Jokhio, Mallaah and Jath in the east.

The earliest evidence of inhabitants in present-day Lithuania dates back to 10, 000 BC.

Some of the earliest human inhabitants of the Lake Michigan region were the Hopewell Indians.

Its earliest organised inhabitants may have had Celtic origins.

The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii.

The earliest inhabitants of the region comprising present-day Congo were the Bambuti people.

Attracting settlers proved difficult, however, and most of the earliest inhabitants were " undesirables " sent from Portugal, mostly Jews.

Africanist historian Donald R. Wright suggests that Senegambian place-names indicate " that the earliest inhabitants might be identified most closely with one of several related groups — Bainunk, Kasanga, Beafada ... To these were added Serer, who moved southward during the first millennium A. D. from the Senegal River valley, and Mande-speaking peoples, who arrived later still from the east.

In his History of South Africa Theal says: " The community of Lydenburg was accused of attempting to domineer over the whole country, without any other right to pre-eminence than that of being composed of the earliest inhabitants, a right which it had forfeited by its opposition to the general weal.

The earliest evidence of settlement in the region dates from the 8th century BC: the inhabitants were apparently linked with the Lusatian and East Pomeranian cultures.

The earliest inhabitants of East Malaysia are the Dayak people and other related ethnic groups such as the Dusun people.

The earliest inhabitants of Anguilla were Amerindian tribes from South America, commonly ( if imprecisely ) referred to as Arawaks, who travelled to the island on rafts and in dugout canoes, settling in fishing, hunting and farming groups.

The earliest known inhabitants of, however, have left traces scattered throughout the territory.

The Negrito s were the earliest inhabitants of Southeast Asia.

According to Strabo Corcyra ( Κόρκυρα ) was the Homeric island of Scheria ( Σχερία ), and its earliest inhabitants were the Phaeacians ( Φαίακες ).

His earliest surviving compositions date from the same year — the first movement of a septet for flute, clarinet, piano and strings and a Grande Fantasie on Russian Folksongs for piano and orchestra.

All these were sustained by a great flowing river, one whose earliest name was spoken in a now lost tongue, and which was called the Rio Grande de Pampanga by the Spaniards later on.

At its peak over 1100 mills operated in this valley, including Slater's mill, and with it the earliest beginnings of America's Industrial and Technological Development.

The earliest evidence of human life is found in the valley of the Faleme in the south-east.

The earliest known human remain discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales, whose owner lived about 230, 000 years ago in the Lower Palaeolithic period.

The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names translates this as " muddy valley by a ridge "; the fūl-element, which meant " foul " or " muddy " was used in the earliest known reference to the area, in a charter by Robert de Lacey, around the year 1200, as used in the Middle English spelling fulebachope.

Among the earliest recorded inhabitants of the Susquehanna River valley were the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks, whose name meant " people of the muddy river " in Algonquian.

It contains the earliest European settlement west of the Mississippi River, part of the French colonial mid-Mississippi valley villages.

Dutch Hollow — Formerly a wooded valley at the base of Nye Hill, it became one of the earliest settled parts of Wisner, and many of its oldest houses can be found here.

Saw mills were among the earliest enterprises, as they were rendered necessary by the presence of an almost unbroken forest over mountain and valley.

The earliest available history shows that in 1831 the entire Heckscherville valley was composed of two villages.

Stone Age and Bronze Age finds show that the Sarnen valley was inhabited from the earliest times.

Indus valley civilisation is one of the earliest civilisations in the world.

The earliest inhabitants of recorded history were the Pyu who entered the Irrawaddy valley from Yunnan c. 2nd century BCE.

Over the following two decades this project documented the development of socio-political complexity in the valley from the earliest Archaic period ( ca.

Subsequent seasons of the same project under the direction of Blanton, Gary Feinman, Steve Kowalewski, Linda Nicholas, and others extended the survey coverage to practically the entire valley, producing an invaluable amount of data on the region's changing settlement patterns from the earliest times to the arrival of the Spanish in AD 1521 ( Blanton et al.

The earliest permanent settlement is in the Guadalentín River valley, likely because of its presence of water sources, mineral resources, and lying along a natural communication route in Andalusia.

The earliest evidence for permanent camps is consistent with the Hopwellian occupation of the Ohio valley.

Paleo-Indians, the earliest indigenous peoples, lived in the valley and the heights by 10, 000 BCE, as evidenced by archaeological artifacts such as Clovis points.

Soon after came hulled, two-row barley found domesticated earliest at Jericho in the Jordan valley and Iraq ed-Dubb in Jordan.

From 1992-1998 Dr. Thomas A. Zoubek embarked on a study of the earliest mid and upper valley sites in Viru concentrating specifically at the sites of Huaca El Gallo / La Gallina in the El Nino Quebrada.

These excavations and later ones in the Susanga region completely redefined our knowledge of the earliest agricultural societies in the valley and resulted in the discovery of the earliest ceramics found in coastal Peru that have been dated to c. 2400 BCE.

One of the earliest recorded nunneries in Ireland, it is located in a valley about 2 miles east of the village of Shanagolden, County Limerick.

The valley formed an easier route through the Levant than crossing the mountains on either side, and so saw a large amount of traffic, and was the site of many historic battles ; the earliest battle for which, the Battle of Megiddo, has a surviving detailed account to prove that it was fought in the valley.