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'The history of Jewellery Design'

Origin
The origin of Jewellery Design has been retraced to the most remote civilizations, about 3000BC. The richest garments and ornaments of burying the dead people, and the pictorial iconography —painting, sculpture, and mosaic offer sufficient evidences that jewellery were worn in various eras.

That prehistoric people who decorating their bodies before they thought to make something that could suggest clothing. Before precious metals were discovered, people who lived along the seashore decorated themselves with a great variety of shells, fish bones, fish teeth, and colored pebbles. On the other side, people who lived inland used the different materials from the animals when it had killed for food, such as reindeer antlers, mammoth tusks, and all kinds of animal bones. After, they had been improved more elaborate, and these materials were combined together with animal skins and bird feathers, provided various decorations.

This era of people transform their living from nomadic to a settled social order, and then birth of the most ancient civilizations. Most people lived along the banks of large rivers, and developed agriculture and animal husbandry. Indirectly, it led to the alluvial soil deposited minerals, first among which were gold and precious stones.

Over the years, the original jewellery forms of prehistoric times were multiplied for every part of the body. For the head there were crowns, hairpins, earrings, nose rings, lip rings, and earplugs; for the neck and torso there were necklaces, fibulae, brooches, belts, and watch fobs; also ankle bracelets, toe rings, and shoe buckles for the thighs, legs, and feet.

I believe that keeping beauty is a natural instinct of human. Thus, the decoration of jewellery and how to collect with clothes are interesting subjects that I look forward to research. And I also want to realize the differences between jewellery design style in every art period in this book.

New vocabulary
pictorial adjactive
synonyms: graphic

iconography none

sufficient adjactive
synonyms: enough, ample, plenty, adequate, satisfactory

elaborate adjactive
antonym: simple, plain, rude

minerals noun
synonyms: ore, metal

fibulae noun

brooches noun