7000 Years of Jewellery – Hugh Tait

7000 Years of Jewellery is a comprehensive guide to the history of jewels, which explores the varied styles, techniques and materials used to make jewellery throughout the world since the earliest times.

It includes, among other times and places:

• The Middle East: 5000-2000 BC
• Egypt: 1500-900 BC
• Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Persian Lands: 850-325 BC
• China, Celtic Europe, Mexico and Peru: 600 BC-AD 600
• The Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Roman Britain and Byzantium: 325 BC-AD 600
• Europe, China, Korea and Japan: AD 300-1000
• Mayan Central America: AD 600-1000
• Central and South America: AD 500-1500
• Europe, Islam, China, Korea and Java: AD 1000-1500
• China, India, Tibet and Mongolia: AD 1500-1850
• West Africa: AD 1500-1800
• Europe: AD 1500-1950.

7000 Years of Jewellery – Hugh Tait (2007), 256 pages