Comments on: How did jewelry enter human civilizations? http://www.howtojewellery.com/how-to-make-jewelry/how-did-jewelry-enter-human-civilizations How to Make Jewellery tutorials for making and selling jewellery anywhere! Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: eternal http://www.howtojewellery.com/how-to-make-jewelry/how-did-jewelry-enter-human-civilizations/comment-page-1#comment-1693 eternal Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:47:59 +0000 http://www.howtojewellery.com/how-to-jewelry/how-did-jewelry-enter-human-civilizations#comment-1693 The oldest known jewelry dates to 100,000 BP, from Tata, Hungary (engraved shells, for decorative purposes, probably stringed together)... This implies 2 things: 1) People had free-time. 2) Pre-humans, such as Neanderthal, had the capacity and inspiration to produce jewelry as well (Cro-Magnon didn't enter Europe until about 40,000 years ago).<br><b>References : </b><br> The oldest known jewelry dates to 100,000 BP, from Tata, Hungary (engraved shells, for decorative purposes, probably stringed together)…

This implies 2 things:

1) People had free-time.

2) Pre-humans, such as Neanderthal, had the capacity and inspiration to produce jewelry as well (Cro-Magnon didn't enter Europe until about 40,000 years ago).
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]]> By: meggurpanda http://www.howtojewellery.com/how-to-make-jewelry/how-did-jewelry-enter-human-civilizations/comment-page-1#comment-1692 meggurpanda Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:29:59 +0000 http://www.howtojewellery.com/how-to-jewelry/how-did-jewelry-enter-human-civilizations#comment-1692 Do you mean why? To decorate/distinguish royalty or "upper-class" in general.<br><b>References : </b><br> Do you mean why?
To decorate/distinguish royalty or "upper-class" in general.
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