Sentence examples for attested period from inspiring English sources

The Dorian invasion was followed by a poorly attested period of migrations, appropriately called the Greek Dark Ages, but by 800 BC the landscape of Archaic and Classical Greece was discernible.

Marriage without manus was by far the more common in all properly attested periods.

Temples are not clearly attested in this period by either archaeology or literature.

Aslan gives numerous examples of Jewish, anti-Roman, and violent individuals who are historically attested to in the period before and after the life of Jesus.

The cultivation of grain in Georgia during the Neolithic Period is attested by finds of saddle querns and flint sickles; the earth was tilled with stone mattocks.

Lakshmi, or Shri, goddess of fortune and consort of Vishnu, was worshipped before the beginning of the Common Era, and several lesser goddesses are attested from the Gupta period.

The messianic ferment of the period was attested by contemporary Jewish-Hellenistic literature, including the writings of Flavius Josephus and the New Testament, as well as by the appearance of prophets such as John the Baptist and Jesus.

The practice of animal sacrifice, abhorred by the modern followers of Zoroaster, is attested for the Sāsānian period at least as late as the reign of Yazdegerd I (399 420).

Artistic development during this period is attested by a pottery fragment of a most expressive woman's face dating from the 3rd millennium bc and recovered from the site of Vosnessenovka in western Siberia.

The outstanding political importance of La Carència during the Iberian Iron-Age period is attested by its large size, the monumental character of its structures and on-site finds.

In this function, it is regularly attested from the Han period on.47 Although it can be employed in true performative deontics, it predominantly appears in indirect suggestions; the agent is frequently unspecified.