Do someone know if, at de beguining of the times, when the prehistoric man (or woman) started to pierce their ears :
-Was a prehistoric man/woman who FIRST made a hole in the ear, and THEN started to think what to insert/hung in that hole?
-Or was the same prehistoric man/woman who FIRST wanted to use the pendant/stud/ ring hi/she had, in any place, and THEN not having another idea, just make a hole in the earlobe to insert it?
What happened first?
And for all of you: What do yo upset more. The hole in the flesh or the metal of the hoop travel trough?
I've always assumed it started things like a small dried out bone through the nose, then probably later the ears. Not so much in the classic "cave man" image we see, but more like shamans and stuff of different tribes. Early jewellery was made of bone or stone, then as we learned to work with metal we naturally learned to make jewellery out of that. Somewhere along the line it became the norm in European culture for the female to have her ears pierced and everything else was for some reason taboo. It's only in the last 30 to 40 years that much of earth's population has gone and started piercings other things again, who knows what we'll see in another 30 years
Actually, from what I have read, it predated Egypt. (4000bc) Certain things, like metal, were of value and people wanted to make sure they did not lose it, so they wore it on their person. I am sure piercings predated metal. As mentioned above, bones and such. It's easy to see how putting a hole through the ear and wearing it was an easy way to make sure you didn't lose it. As things evolved, gold became of great value, and the size of the gold hoop indicated the level of wealth. These days, large gold hoops can be made out of cheap metal, so this may be why large hoops became a sign of someone who was fake, cheap, or demeaned in other ways. (Wanting to look like more than they were.) To some of us, hoops are still a sign of great value, or at least fun
The second part of your question was a bit hard to understand. Upset would mean disturbed. I suspect you may have meant interest? For me, the thought that the beautiful large hoop actually travels through her ear is very sexually stimulation as it becomes part of her. The sight of the earlobe being pulled around by the hoop reinforces the concept that it actually does travel through her. Earrings that allow for the visible view of where they enter also reinforce this. That is why stud type earrings that hide the piercing kind of leave me flat. Might / or could just be a clip-on. A fake.
Regarding you question of whether the hole or earring came up first; If you pierce a hole, you have to put something in it rather quickly, so that the body will construct a fistula (healed hole) instead shutting the wound again (the most obvious way for the body heal it).
That might aswell have been the ritual. And somehow they ought to have experimented with that first, finding out how it worked.
Technically, I guess they could have happened at the same time if the person decided to take a small sharp piece of bone and stick it through their earlobe to wear as an ornament.
