Sentence examples for be the earliest example from inspiring English sources

What is thought to be the earliest example of a Western flute was discovered in 2008 at Hohle Fels cave near Ulm, Germany.

Scorched marks of hearths remain, but the building materials, probably willow woven between the posts and then made wind and watertight by plastering with clay, rotted away millennia ago – except for the base of one wall, believed to be the earliest example of chalk cob as a building material.

If so, it would be the earliest example of symbiosis yet.

This appears to be the earliest example of a purported proof of relative consistency, by which a theory is shown to be consistent lest another theory — whose consistency is typically taken for granted — be inconsistent.

Zig-zag marks scratched into a shell about 500,000 years ago, likely by a member of Homo erectus, may be the earliest example of hominid carving.

Ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.

Animal bones incised with man-made markings from Kozarnika cave are assumed to be the earliest examples of symbolic behaviour in humans.

Tosa nikki is the earliest example of a literary diary.

It is the earliest example of Mr. Twombly's paintings to enter the museum's collection.

Among them is the earliest example of a terra-cotta warrior yet found in China.

He was the earliest example of a sporting sex symbol and a football phenomenon who has been called "the first Pelé".