Jewelry, Costume or Fashion Jewelry - How Did It All Start?

 Ever wonder how decorating our bodies with trinkets, Opal Jewelry , got it's started? Did the ancients of old see a pretty seashell or rock and decided this would look good hanging on a string or possibly a thin vine around the neck? Or maybe decided to put this on their wrist. Did the women see an unusual bone fragment and decided it would look good holding her hair off her face? How did anyone decide which pieces of stone, metal, bone, or shell was valuable enough to use as trading currency? I have just begun to research my questions and do not have answers yet. I have found the common previously reported ideas of jewelry to share. As I begin my quest I can see that there will be many more questions and I can't hardly wait to find the answers. Jewelry consists of decorative items worn for adornments, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones [I call them pretty rocks], has been the normal material for...