The history of jewellery is long and goes back many years, with many different uses among different cultures. It has endured for thousands of years and has provided various insights into how ancient cultures worked. Prehistory The earliest known Jewellery was actually created not by humans ( Homo sapiens ) but by  Neanderthal  living in Europe. Specifically, perforated beads made from small sea shells have been found dating to 115,000 years ago in the Cueva de los Aviones, a cave along the southeast coast of Spain. Later in Kenya, at  Enkapune Ya Muto , beads made from perforated  ostrich  egg shells have been dated to more than 40,000 years ago. In Russia, a stone bracelet and marble ring are attributed to a similar age. [22] Later, the  European early modern humans  had crude  necklaces  and  bracelets  of bone, teeth, berries, and stone hung on pieces of string or animal  sinew , or pieces of carved bone used to secur...