Jewelry was used as early as 80,000 years ago . Formerly often made of teeth, leather and shells, it served as a symbol of war, power or origin.
With the development of our civilization, many population groups, many different cultures met; the need for jewelry grew greatly, since at that time it had the function of demonstrating one's status to strangers.
As humanity embraced metalworking , jewelry making changed radically.
With the use of classic precious metals and the later decoration with precious stones , we are very quickly approaching today's jewelry image .
Less religious, less symbolic, jewelry was increasingly valued for its decorative character .
Antiquity , which extends into the early 18th century, represents the beginning of the well-known jewelery epochs.
Many more follow this epoch up to the modern one. Each of these jewelry epochs tells its own story.