[Jewelry making - Article 00961] - [Orchid] Jewelry techniques from stoneage

[Michael Honeycutt]

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Hello Orchidians, one and all,

    So here I am with a couple of questions that concern different
    aspects of the jewelry trade. 

    First, as I have always been quite interested in archeaology, may I
    ask those in the know to provide me with some websites that deal with
    jewelry from stoneage days up to say, the rise of Rome? I'm
    interested in studies dealing with techniques of production,
    materials, designs used and so on. The web is my major mode of
    contact with such material, our local libraries are dreadfully
    lacking in such things. Lots of pictures and descriptions would be
    fantastic. Some readings would be great also. My wife is currently in
    college and inter-library loans are a possibility if I can find
    titles/ authors to learn from. I've truly enjoyed Natl. Geographic
    articles depicting Scythian and Sumerian jewelry but they very rarely
    discuss technique in any detail. I want to know about some of these
    techniques because I would love to try my hand at utilizing them for
    myself with my own designs. The ancients produced amazing articles of
    art with some amazingly crude tools. Call me cheap or drastically
    under-funded I don't care. I want to learn how they did what they
    did, and what they developed in the line of tools and such to do it
    all. That's how I learned flintknapping, it should work here too. 

    <edit split to new post>

Mike 



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