Jewelry

The meaning of jewelry;
All ornaments worn on the body and dresses, regardless of the value of the jewelry, are called jewelry. The word jewelry is derived from the verb to wear.
Description of Jewelry:
Although the name of jewelry is called as bijouterie today, when people think of jewelry, jewelry usually comes to mind. Gem; Made using precious metals such as gold and silver and precious stones such as diamond and emerald; usually worn on body or clothing; It is the name given to necklaces, earrings, rings, brooches, bracelets, anklets, chains, etc. ornaments. It is multiple jewelery. Jewelry has become an indispensable part of fashion today. Although women and jewelry duo are indispensable elements of fashion, jewelery suitable for men's fashion such as prayer beads, earrings, glasses, bags, hats, ties, belts are today's men's jewelry, some of which are also used as women's jewelry.
The stages of jewelry in the historical process.
Jewelry is the most elegant and most important of the art products of every culture. For this reason, men or women appeal to the feelings of seeing and possessing what is beautiful in all of us. All precious metals and stones, especially gold, have always had a special importance since the day humans became civilized and the first foundations of socialization were laid. Wars broke out for them, civilizations disappeared. There have even been some worshipers in the historical process. The usage areas of precious and semi-precious stones and metals differed in historical process. The process, which started with the simplest definition of "making life easier", gradually took forms such as votive, gift and jewelry. When we look at the stages of jewelry in the historical process, the jewelry of the prehistoric age, the jewelry culture of Anatolian civilizations and the examples of world jewelry; It is enjoyable to understand and make sense of the effect of jewelry on social life.
Prehistoric Periods
The history of jewelry is almost as old as the history of man. The first jewelery must have been created as amulets for hunting and protection purposes, as well as being ornamented in the Paleolithic Age, when people were not settled yet. Easily processed colored stones, teeth, horns, bones and nails parts of game animals and natural materials such as shells of land and marine mollusks are shaped by abrasion by rubbing and scraping, drilled and arranged into necklaces.