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Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.
Ancient Roman jewelry was characterized by an interest in colored gemstones and glass, in contrast with their Greek predecessors who focused primarily on the production of high-quality metalwork by practiced artisans. [1] Extensive control of Mediterranean territories provided an abundance of natural resources to utilize in jewelry making.
Jack Ogden, FSA, [6] FGA, [7] is a British jewellery historian with a particular interest in the development of Materials and technology. He is considered one of the foremost experts in his field.
Ancient Egyptian flint Bracelet (MET 23.2.14 EGDP011486) Flint jewelry was known in the prehistoric, protodynastic, and early dynastic periods of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians skillfully made bracelets [1] [2] and armlets [3] [4] out of flint. The flint came from locations that include Giza and Upper Egypt. [5]
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Most ancient jewellery is of bone, ivory, antler or some soft stone (such as limestone or lignite). The diversity and manufacture of these pieces, then, indicates a significant development in human evolution, especially as it comes in such various forms (hairbands, placed in clothing, bracelets, anklets, and so forth).
It is one of the most important groups of Minoan jewellery. The Aegina Treasure is composed largely of gold jewellery that has been dated, based on its style and iconography, to the Greek Bronze Age between 1850 and 1550 BC, [ 2 ] so "Middle Minoan II" and III in most versions of the Minoan chronology .
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