1.   Art is often seen as providing the earliest evidence of abstract thinking, and so is crucial to understanding the history of consciousness and language.

2.   But after more than a decade of controversy, the South African cave artifacts are now being generally accepted as the earliest evidence of such modern human behavior.

3.   Early Civilizations On View in Delaware An exhibition of artifacts dating to the earliest evidence of civilization will be on display in Wilmington, Del., starting Saturday.

4.   His findings are the earliest evidence of H.pylori infection in humans.

5.   In any case, the earliest evidence for agriculture so far comes from the period immediately after the Younger Dryas.

6.   It offers the earliest evidence of such a distinctly birdlike structure as the keeled breastbone, which is essential for flight.

7.   Logan said the earliest evidence of this culture has been found at Logan Creek in northeastern Nebraska, in northwestern Iowa and also in the lower Illinois River Valley.

8.   Not the business about the earliest evidence of human life yadda yadda yadda.

9.   That shows that very soon after the earliest evidence of tool use in Africa, humans had spread from their original home to colonize Asia.

10.   The residue contains the earliest chemical evidence of wine, a team of archaeologists said in a report being published Thursday in the journal Nature.