Materials and technologies in Siberian jewelry design archetype formation: from Paleolithic-Neolithic to post-modern

Abstract

Jewelry materials and technologies used by the autochthonous tribes of East Siberia are described; regular growth in the number of the jewelry elements is examined in close connection to the new natural materials discovered and the process technology improving; the influence of the latter on the Siberian archetype formation in the modern jewelry design is illustrated by the cases of the Irkutsk artists at the turn of the 20th century.