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Jewelry in the Americas has an ancient history. The earliest known examples of North American jewelry are four bone earrings found at the Mead Site, near Fairbanks, Alaska that date back 12,000 years. [3]
Trade beads are also found in the United States and Canada, and throughout Latin America. The bead designs were varied. [2] North American Indians sought beads of particular color, size, and form. [4] The frequency of archaeological discovery of each type indicates their popularity. [4]
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.
The Harpole Treasure was discovered in 2022, and refers to a collection of valuable relics unearthed from a burial ground in England. Among the finds was a unique piece of jewelry.
Great Lake artifacts found in the Eastern Woodlands of North America seem to indicate there were widespread trading networks by 1000 BC. Progressively the usage of copper for tools decreases with more jewelry and adornments being found. This is believed to be indicative of social changes to a more hierarchical society. [3]
North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-3689-5; Dubin, Lois Sherr (2009). The History of Beads: From 100,000 B.C. to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0810951747. Beads and beadwork. (1996). In Encyclopedia of north american indians, Houghton Mifflin.
Maya pendant in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Map showing the locations of some of the main jade, obsidian and serpentine sources in Mesoamerica. The archaeological search for the Mesoamerican jade sources, which were largely lost at the time of the Maya collapse, began in 1799 when Alexander von Humboldt started his geological research in the New World.
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