Plaques and dress ornaments were carved from thin slabs of jade, but there are also small figurines, masks, and birds and animals carved in the round, some of these perhaps representing the earliest examples of mingqi ("spirit vessels"), artistic figures substituted for live victims buried in order to serve the deceased.
Although these data should still be considered preliminary, the sequences represent the earliest examples to date of class I, II and III SLRPs, suggesting that the divergence of the SLRP ancestor into three classes, following gene duplication, occurred before the lamprey-gnathostome split.
The story of Abraham saving Lot represents the earliest of a series of examples of the concept of "pidyon shvuyim" — redeeming the captives, invariably at a cost — in Jewish Scripture, rabbinic commentaries and legal codes.
The connection colors represent co-citation year, for example, blue represents the earliest connection, and orange represents the most recently established connection.
Your project shines a light on what is believed to be the earliest example of notation representing African music in the Americas, mentioned almost as an afterthought in a book penned by a British traveler to Jamaica.
The smallpox vaccine represents the earliest attempt in engineering immunity.
Early-onset prostate cancer (EO-PCA) represents the earliest clinical manifestation of prostate cancer.
Teleocrater represents the earliest relative of dinosaurs, known as avemetatarsalians.
This two-stage training represents the early learning of categories through exposure to representative example stimuli, followed by more recent learning of specific novel examples in a transformation-invariant manner.
Coffee represents the early morning stillness of a quiet house.
