A adorned engraved pendant courting to round 11,000 BC, and regarded as the oldest Mesolithic artwork in Britain, was discovered on the website of Star Carr in North Yorkshire in 2015. In southern Russia, carved bracelets made from mammoth tusk have been found. The Venus of Hohle Fels contains a perforation at the prime, showing that it was supposed to be worn as a pendant. The word jewelry itself is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French “jouel”, and beyond that, to the Latin word “jocale”, meaning plaything. In British English, Indian English, New Zealand…