Gem And Jewelry

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Gem And Jewelry. Men, women,, and children in every part of the world wear some sort of jewelry either as ornament or for magic. Some pieces made of gems and precious metals, are almost priceless. Much however, is only costume jewelry fashioned from imitation gems and the cheaper metals and and manufactured in large quantities.Among primitive peoples , as in Africa and on the Pacific Islands, jewelry is largely oddments of wood , bones, shells or animalhair; yet many of the designs are graceful. For some tribes, jewelry is only a wooden lip plug.

As far back as the Old Stone Age, men made jewelry. In their cave dwellings they fashioned amulets and necklaces of teeth and animal bones to ward off evil spirits. By Babylonian times, men had learned to work with gold, and jewelry making had become a craft. The Sumerian jewelers had their workshops withi8n the temple grounds. Jewelers in ancient Egypt developed jewelry enamels, or cloisonne and produced magnificent gold and silver pieces. The Etruscans have have never been equaled in their work of granulations.

The ancient Greeks worked chiefly in enamel and in filigree - gold silver wire shaped into lacelike openwork. Jewelers of the Roman Empire added gems to gold and silver pieces. Enameling and heavy design characterized the elaborate Byzantine Jewelry.

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