Seeing somme 2000+ year old earrings at the museum got me thinking. How did we our ancestor started thinking Let’s poke a hole in your ear, and then keep a piece of silver inside to make-sure the hole stay open Already by today standard’s it sometimes feel a bit crazy.
Bonus question, how did they even prevented infection/allergies. Even today, people still have allergies/infection from earring. But in an era before modern hygiene and medecine, how wasn’t it more dangerous ?
Ironically, these are seen as masculine trait, making actually weird that it is (used to be ?) a woman’s thing in modern western culture. Looks like one of the many gender norm anomaly
Just like high heels for men riding horses in western Europe were a masculine trait when they were invented and still are today. And don’t forget the knightly colours of red and pink. No woman would dare to feminise such manly things.
Masculine trait in our culture. Not every culture has been a patriarchy and I’m sure many didnt care which gender was tough when survival was so difficult.