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JewelryThe vogue of jewelry is as old as the earliest civilization. However, it was not as refined as the contemporary ones. Historians assume that man began wearing jewelry after he migrated to Europe around 35,000 to 45,000 years ago. The purpose of putting on these metals of adornment was often associated with religious or mystical beliefs. The word jewelry is an early derivation of the Latin jocale(plaything), while jewel acquired an anglicized accent in the 13th century from the French jouel.Ancient jewelry was made of shells, mollusks, pebbles, shells, berries, or animal bones. A recently discovered mollusk or nassarius kraussianus shells perforated into beads is now being regarded as one of the oldest samples of man-made jewelry. This ancient jewelry was excavated from a cave in Blombos, South Africa, now believed to age between 75,000 to 1, 00,000 years!Initially, jewelry was made from easily available natural materials like animal bones, teeth, shells, carved stones, and weStatus: 20
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