His earliest surviving freestanding sculpture is the white tin-glazed terracotta Visitation in the church of San Giovanni Fuoricivitas of Pistoia, dating to 1445.

The earliest ceramics were pottery objects or 27, 000 year old figurines made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials, hardened in fire.

The Indus Civilization was the earliest center of ceramics, and thus the pottery of Cholistan has a long history.

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 manifestation of this type of pottery may be in the region around Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Not all of these cultural elements characteristic of the Neolithic appeared everywhere in the same order: the earliest farming societies in the Near East did not use pottery.

As of 2012, the earliest pottery found anywhere in the world, dating to 20, 000 to 19, 000 years before the present, was found at Xianrendong Cave in the Jiangxi province of China.

The earliest history of pottery production in the Near East can be divided into four periods, namely: the Hassuna period ( 7000-6500 BCE ), the Halaf period ( 6500-5500 BCE ), the Ubaid period ( 5500-4000 BCE ), and the Uruk period ( 4000-3100 BCE ).

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.

Some of the earliest pottery shards recovered are from central Honshu, Japan.

It serves as a tool in understanding how the earliest European societies functioned, principally through well-preserved ritual burials, pottery, and golden jewelry.

The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BCE, and the Neolithic period began after 6000 BCE, followed by the Bronze Age by 800 BCE, and the Iron Age around 400 BCE.

The earliest known Korean pottery dates back to around 8000 BC, and evidence of Mesolithic Pit-Comb Ware culture or Yungimun Pottery is found throughout the peninsula.

Late in the Archaic period, from 2000 BCE to 500 BCE, the Mount Taylor culture was succeeded by the Orange culture, which was among the earliest cultures in North America to produce pottery.

He pointed to Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands as the place from where the earliest Fijians came, as the pottery fragments were typical of the early Lapita period in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, but not readily found on Lapita pottery in Fiji.

The earliest attestation of Hatshepsut as pharaoh occurs in the tomb of Ramose and Hatnofer where a collection of grave goods contained a single pottery jar or amphora from the tomb's chamber — which was stamped with the date Year 7.

The earliest imitated pottery motifs.

In the earliest tombs were a small number of locally imitated Mycenaean pottery vessels, but the majority of the hand-made pottery with incised decoration reflects connections eastwards with Thrace and beyond.

Evidence from excavations such as extensive pottery and the earliest known tablets of writing support these events.

The earliest age of civilization, the " clay age ", is marked by crude, hand-made pottery and thumb-marked bricks-flat on one side, concave on the other, gradually developing through several fairly marked stages.

It currently appears that the earliest pottery in the world may have been made in Japan, before the start of the Jōmon period.

Early pottery is often unglazed, but tin-opacified glazing was one of the earliest new technologies developed by the Islamic potters.

He is believed to have been one of the earliest metalworkers in Britain and his discovery supports interpreters who claim that the diffusion of Beaker Culture pottery was the result of population movement, rather than just the widespread adoption of an artefact ' package '.

The earliest printed book from the Netherlands that has been dated with any certainty is from 1473.

Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The KITLV or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies ( founded in 1851 ), the observatory 1633 ; the natural history museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet ; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ( National Museum of Antiquities ), with specially valuable Egyptian and Indian departments ; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times ; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collections.

As of, he is the oldest and earliest serving former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and is one of the oldest living state leaders at the age of.

At the age of De Jong is the oldest living and earliest serving former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the second oldest living former member of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands, after former Minister of Colonial Affairs Gerard Helders ( currently aged ) who served in the Third Drees cabinet ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the Second Beel cabinet ( 1958 – 1959 ).

Maurice was stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from earliest 1585 until his death in 1625.

Among the earliest practices that are frequently mentioned are Big Sky Telegraph ( Montana, USA ), Cleveland Free-Net ( Cleveland, USA ) Public Electronic Network ( PEN ) in Santa Monica ( California, USA ), Digital Stad in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands ).

He was part of the earliest movement, as a disciple of Melchior Hoffman, that laid the foundations of Anabaptism in the Netherlands and northern Germany.

The earliest well-known community bicycle program was started in the summer of 1965 by Luud Schimmelpennink in association with the radical group Provo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

One of the earliest surviving recorders was discovered in a castle moat in Dordrecht, the Netherlands in 1940, and has been dated to the 14th century.

The members ( listed from earliest joining and alphabetically if they joined on the same day ) at this time were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, the British Empire, Canada, Chile, the Republic of China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia / Iran, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Afghanistan and Ecuador.

The earliest appearance of the phrase was in July 1947, referring to attempts by Netherlands forces to recolonize Indonesia.

The Pre-Roman Iron Age of Northern Europe ( 5th / 4th-1st century BC ) designates the earliest part of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Netherlands north of the Rhine River.

The earliest known working telescopes were the refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608.

He was one of the earliest defenders of the circulation of the blood in the Netherlands.

Janszoon was the captain of the Duyfken in 1605-1606, when part of the Gulf of Carpentaria was mapped, during the earliest documented visit to Australia by a vessel from the Netherlands.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

From the earliest days of the motor car industry, before the A.L.A.M. was established, patent infringement loomed as a serious and vexing problem.

Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

Some time after this mosaic was executed, the earliest depictions of Christ would also be beardless and haloed.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

One of the earliest group automorphisms ( automorphism of a group, not simply a group of automorphisms of points ) was given by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus, where he discovered an order two automorphism, writing:

One of the earliest steps towards atomic physics was the recognition that matter was composed

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

It was confirmed in 2010 that these remains belong to her — one of the earliest members of the English royal family.

This is a history of Spain from the earliest times down to 1456, and was printed at Granada in 1545, and also in the Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores aliquot, by R. Bel ( Frankfort, 1579 ).

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.