By: gerald

Jewellery includes all sort of decorative objects worn by both men and women. They are usually made with gems and precious metals such as diamond, gold and silver. However, they can and have often been made out of almost every kind of material like stones or bones, or even plastic and nickel.
The cleverness of human beings has very often allowed them to use metals and change them into beautiful jewellery. The most common of all metal used is actually the nickel which can be found in costume jewellery or clothing ornamentation such as buttons.
The history of jewellery goes back to thousand and thousand of years when jewellery was often only made for people with a very high rank and importance in society to show their social status. They were more created for practical uses than for decoration as it is most of the time today. It seems that the first signs of jewellery came around forty thousand years ago with the ancestors of the Homo sapiens.