Editing Minoan civilization (section)

===Jewelry===
Minoan jewellery has mostly been recovered from graves, and until the later periods much of it consists of [[diadem]]s and ornaments for women's hair, though there are also the universal types of rings, bracelets, armlets and necklaces, and many thin pieces that were sewn onto clothing. In the earlier periods gold was the main material, typically hammered very thin.<ref name="Hood 1978, 188-190"/> but later it seemed to become scarce.<ref>Hood (1978), 205-206</ref>

The Minoans created elaborate metalwork with imported gold and copper. Bead necklaces, bracelets and hair ornaments appear in the frescoes,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://university.langantiques.com/index.php/Greek_Jewelry|title=Greek Jewelry – AJU|access-date=2016-04-06|archive-date=2016-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423072032/http://university.langantiques.com/index.php/Greek_Jewelry|url-status=dead}}</ref> and many [[labrys]] pins survive. The Minoans mastered [[Granulation (jewellery)|granulation]], as indicated by the [[Malia Pendant]], a gold pendant featuring bees on a honeycomb.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nelson|first1=E Charles|last2=Mavrofridis|first2=Georgios|last3=Anagnostopoulos|first3=Ioannis Th|title=Natural History of a Bronze Age Jewel Found in Crete: The Malia Pendant|date=2020-09-30|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003581520000475/type/journal_article|journal=The Antiquaries Journal|volume=101|language=en|pages=67–78|doi=10.1017/S0003581520000475|s2cid=224985281|issn=0003-5815}}</ref> This was overlooked by the 19th-century looters of a royal burial site they called the "Gold Hole".<ref>Hood (1978), 194-195</ref>