A adorned engraved pendant dating to round 11,000 BC, and thought to be the oldest Mesolithic art in Britain, was discovered at the site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire in 2015. In southern Russia, carved bracelets manufactured from mammoth tusk have been found. The Venus of Hohle Fels includes a perforation on the prime, exhibiting that it was intended to be worn as a pendant. The word jewelry itself is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French “jouel”, and past that, to the Latin word “jocale”, which means plaything. In British English, Indian English,…
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