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When was jewelry invented? Where did jewelry come from? These questions will perhaps never be fully answered, but wherever and whoever was the first to design and wear accessories have shaped the world’s fashion. As jewelry lovers, we are grateful. Our jewelry experts at Goldfellow have often wondered themselves as to what exactly the history of jewelry is and if it is at all similar to what we wear in the modern-day.
After a fair bit of research, we came up with the answers! And since we know that this topic will surely also fascinate potential jewelry sellers, we created this quick overview of our findings to help expand public knowledge of jewelry history.
What Is the History of Jewelry for Women?
The women of the primitive era were women who created jewelry from what they could find in their immediate surroundings and commonly crafted necklaces from shells and small bones. Since precious metals need mining, there was little to no jewelry made of these materials in those times. It was around 3000 B.C. that we started to see precious metals appear in women’s jewelry. Still typical in necklaces and bracelets, they also carried a spiritual and symbolic meaning.
We begin to see modern designs for women in jewelry history surface during the medieval period. Many jewelry designs and materials used during these times could fit in today with no issue! However, the designs we most commonly see nowadays likely surfaced between the medieval period and the 20th century.
Know the History of Men’s Jewelry?
We may not know who invented jewelry for men, but we do have a pretty good idea as to what they would have been wearing! Primitive human men commonly wore teeth, claws, bones, and other trophies from hunts around their necks and even heads in the beginning stages of human jewelry history; we doubt you’d see much of that in modern times. When you fast forward a few thousand years, precious metals can be found all over men across several continents. Bronze, silver, jade, obsidian, and gold in jewelry can be found on men as we enter ancient Greece and later Rome, leaves were also a common sight for wealthy men of power.
The trend of wealth and jewelry being tied together was common for centuries and has seen a resurgence in the last several decades. In the modern era we, once again, see luxurious styles of jewelry used as status symbols.
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