Jewelry

C. 135,000 BCE

Jewelry

Paleolithic Middle East

(About photograph: Jewelry found at a burial site at the Balzi Rossi Caves in Liguria, Italy, which dates back 25,000 years ⬆️

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Personal adornment, often made from precious or valuable materials

“The earliest known jewelry comes from the Paleolithic Middle East, where people used sea snail shells to make beads as early as 135,000 years ago. Jewelry is not an art form confined to Homo sapiens, however, because evidence exists to show that Homo neanderthalensis created and used jewelry in Spain at least 50,000 years ago. It is believed that these early forms of jewelry were most probably worn as a form of protection from evil or as a mark of status or rank.

Over the millennia, humans have fashioned jewelry form bone, stone, wood, shells, feathers, teeth, and other natural materials, with metallic jewelry first appearing around 5000 BCE. By about 3000 BCE the ancient Egyptians had begun crafting gol and silver jewelry, sometimes incorporating glass and precious

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“Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore . . .” Thomas Moore, “Rich and Rare . . .” (1808)

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gems into their designs. The Egyptians believed that every gemstone carried certain mystical powers, which would be transferred to the owner when worn as jewelry . . .”(MT – ideas 💡)

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