One of the oldest ornaments, widespread since the Paleolithic among many peoples of the world (due to ease of manufacture and ease of wearing). The first pendants were made of wood, stones and bones (fangs, claws) of animals, shells of mollusks.

 Mankind has widely used this decoration, both for ritual purposes and to express their personal place in the social sphere. A wide variety of pendants served as talismans and amulets. Men wore the claw or fang of a dead bear, wolf on a leather cord as a sign of a hunter.

With the development of culture and metal processing technology, pendants and pendants became more elegant and refined, they began to be made by master jewelers from precious metals (silver, gold), and the stone processing technique made it possible to decorate jewelry with inserts of various colors.