The History of Pre Columbian Jewelry Sparkling

The history of pre-Columbian jewelry starts around 4000 BC. The pre-Columbian empires also had a highly developed society, was familiar not only in art and mathematics, astronomy, engineering, metallurgy and architecture. Jewelry history about 4000 BC in these areas have revealed extensive use of copper and its various oxides. It is considered that their knowledge of metallurgy in fact encouraged the production of weapons! Copper has been used in jewelry, beads and earrings plus excellent weapons and armor. In 3000, British Columbia, the Pre-Columbians already using the lost wax jewelry. This process is still used in the manufacture of blades of turbine engine jet!
This pre-Columbian jewelry has been cast in brass, silver, and gilded with 24 carat gold! That's not all. The jewels were then protected by a layer of varnish! About 25,000 items of this historic and artistic treasures displayed delicate, excellent skills in metallurgy and the highest form of aesthetics stored in museums. While Colombia was the original "El Dorado", a heart of gold working skills. The most regrettable that the invading Spanish conquistadors destroyed the entire civilization with the diseases they brought in.
Jewelry historical documented in 1557 found evidence of the use of platinum, even by pre-Columbian. Some items of gold jewelry in 1600 after 500 AD recorded death masks, flutes with tweezers and exquisite craftsmanship. During the 3000 years between 1500 BC and 1500 AD the Inca and Nasca, Peru, Ecuador Canar, Sun Quis Costa Rica, Panama, Cocle, Mixtec in Mexico and Tolima in Colombia, some of pre-Columbian tribes is Excellent pre-Columbian jewelry. Some of them were armadillos, frogs, fish, turtles, shellfish, deer, lizards and flowers next to jaguars. There were pieces of jewelry musicians, men with drums and women with children in their arms. For the pre-Columbian Gold was known as sweat "sun" and silver as the "tears of the moon. Today, the online stores sell pre-Columbian beautiful earrings with jade stones, earrings cat and lizard brooches in sterling silver.