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===Europe=== Bronze anklets are visible as early as the [[Bronze Age]] in temperate Europe, in an area roughly along the Danube, in the Alpine foreland, up the Rhine to the Atlantic, and also down the Rhône (Sherratt, 2001). These were found among hoards in these areas, along with other bronze items characteristic of this time (c. 1800 BCE onwards), and are attributable to the [[Tumulus culture]] that spread across this region. Periscelis ({{langx|grc|περισκελίς}}), was an anklet worn by ancient Greek and Roman women. The plebeian women wore anklets of silver, whereas the patricians of gold.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=periscelis-harpers Harry Thurston Peck, ''Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'' (1898), "Periscelis"].</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0063:entry=periscelis-cn ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' (1890), "Periscelis"].</ref>
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