Beauty Wire

Jewelry played a main role in the fate of the Americas when the Spanish established an empire to seize South American gold. Jewelry making developed in the Americas 5,000 years ago in Central and South America. Large amounts of blond was easily accessible, and the Aztecs and Mayans assumed numerous works in the metal.

• Although mellow yellow was the most everyday and big man material recycled in Aztec jewelry, silver was also readily accessible throughout Sterling Silver Jewelry the American empires

• In extension to adornment and status, the Aztecs also familiar with jewelry in sacrifices to appease the gods
• Priests also used gem encrusted daggers to perform animal and human sacrifices.