jewelry
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. For many centuries, metals such as gold and silver, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery. Other materials such as glass, shells, or wood may also be used.
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Jewelry consists of decorative items like rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets that people wear on their bodies or clothes for personal adornment. These ornaments are typically made from durable materials such as metals like gold and silver, often combined with gemstones, though glass, shells, and wood are also used.
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38 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Form and function
- Materials and methods
- Diamonds
- Other gemstones
- Gold and other precious metals
- Impact on society
- History
- Prehistory
- Africa
- Egypt
- Maghreb countries in North Africa
- Europe and the Middle East
- The first gold jewellery from Bulgaria
- Mesopotamia
- Greece
- Etruscan
- Rome
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- Romanticism
- 18th century/Romanticism/Renaissance
- Art Nouveau
- Art Deco
- Asia
- China
- Indian subcontinent
- North and South America
- Native American
- Pacific
- Modern
- Masonic
- Body modification
- Jewellery market
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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. For many centuries, metals such as gold and silver, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery. Other materials such as glass, shells, or wood may also be used.
Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery. The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.