What was the first piece of jewelry?

Around 75,000 years ago, in a cave near the southern Cape shoreline in South Africa, a human drilled tiny holes into the shells of snails and strung them as beads to make the oldest known jewellery – by at least 30,000 years.

When was the first jewelry created?

The earliest finding of jewelry was dated around 25,000 years ago. This simple necklace made of fish bones was found in a cave in Monaco.

What is the oldest type of jewelry?

shell beads
In a cave in the western Morocco desert, archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest jewelry: a set of shell beads dated from 142,000 and 150,000 years ago.

What is the oldest jewelry brand?

1780 — Chaumet, the oldest jeweler still in operation

The oldest top jewelry brand which is still in business, even if it does not belong anymore to its founding family since 1987, is Chaumet — now part of the LVMH luxury group. The maison Chaumet was founded by Marie-Étienne Nitot in 1780.