Pre Columbian Art

The history of pre-Columbian jewelry starts around 4000 BC. Columbian empires even then have been common in highly developed society, not just art and mathematics, but in astronomy, engineering, metallurgy and architecture as well. historical jewels from around 4000 BC in these empires have shown intensive use of copper and its various oxides. It is believed that their knowledge of metallurgy have encouraged the production of weapons! Copper has been used in ornaments, beads and earrings in addition to weapons and armor excellent. Around 3000 BC, the pre-Columbians were using the lost wax process for jewelry. This process is still used in the manufacture of turbine blades of jet!

These pre-Columbian jewelry was cast in bronze, silver and gold, then with 24 carats! This is not all. The jewelry was then protected by a layer of varnish! About 25,000 items of historical jewels, displaying fine art, excellent skills in metallurgy and the highest form of aesthetics have been recorded in the museums. The British and was the original "El Dorado" and work skills center for gold. It is very unfortunate that the invading Spanish conquistadors destroyed the entire civilization with the diseases they brought in.

documented historical jewels in 1557 found evidence of the use of platinum by the same pre-Columbian. Some 1,600 gold jewelry masks 500 deaths registered post AD, tweezers and flutes with exquisite art. During 3000, between 1500 BC and 1500 AD the Inca and Nazca in Peru, Ecuador Canar, Di Quis Costa Rica, Panama, Cocle, Mixtec in Mexico and Tolima in Colombia have been some of the tribes Pre-Columbian who has exquisite pre-Columbian jewelry. Some of them were armadillos, frogs, fish, turtles, shellfish, deer, lizards and jaguars and more flowers. There were jewels of musicians, men with drums and women with children in their arms. For pre-Columbian gold was known as "sweat of the sun and the money that the" tears of the moon. "Today, the online shops selling beautiful earrings with pre-Columbian jade stones, cat earrings and sterling silver lizard pin.