This is a timeline of jewellery production all the way from the beginning.

7000 BC - Uses of copper in Anatolia, Iran and Eastern Europe were being incorporated into jewellery

5000 BC - Uses of copper in Egypt appeared

4000 BC - Smelting technology for copper in Egypt and Iran was created

3450 BC - Use of natural zinc/copper alloy in Egypt was explored

3500 BC - Gold starts to makes an appearance in some Egyptian jewellery

3000 BC - Egypt and Iran started making simple hammered iron beads for jewellery

3000 BC - The Middle East started to employ semi-mass-production techniques for Jewellery

2000 BC - First signs of the swaging technique was introduced

2600 BC - Beaded wires began to be used in designs

2500 BC - Egyptians started using copper/lead alloys for Jewellery

2500 BC - True iron production technology in Near East began

2500 BC - The intentional addition of silver and copper to gold to create jewellery

2500 BC - Gold wires are characterised by seam lines that follow a spiral path along the wires

2000 BC - Use of patterned punches introduced

1500 BC - Earrings started to become popular in Egypt.

1400 BC - Egypt’s Amarna period, using resin and mud for repoussé backing.

1400 BC - Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in Canaan

1400 BC - Philistines now have iron

1400 BC - Very copper rich gold alloys started getting popular in Egypt

1000 BC - Persian sheet bronze work 0.05mm thick began to be created

1000 BC - The start of true engraving began

900 BC - The Greeks now have iron

700 BC - World's oldest coinage was created in Lydia

575 BC - In Greece, finding jewellery was still very rare indeed

500 BC - Hafted hammers were being used in some parts of the world

500 BC - Iron in use in the British Isles

400 BC - Greeks using Beeswax as filler in repoussé

350 BC - Use of combined punches and dies of bronze came around

325 BC - Animal or human-headed hoop earrings became popular

300 BC - Diadems are seen for the first time.

300 BC - Red Coral becomes popular in Celtic Jewellery.

AD 50 - The start of the Roman period, where the addition of silver to gold becomes almost unknown

AD 100 - Sulphur fills the hollow gold items throughout the Roman Empire

AD 150 - Tin rings were found in Nubia

AD 300 - Lead becomes more common in places al over the world

AD 400 - Pewter jewellery is first made

AD 400 - A shale die is found in Great Britain.

AD 1500 - The Renaissance Period

AD 1900 - Art Nouveau Jewellery was created