* Jewelry of the ancients: Estruscan Jewelry Castellani was one of the leading Italian jewelry designers (in a famous family lineage) of the 19th century. When the major Etruscan tombs were found, they were asked to analyze the Etruscan jewelry. They could not immediately reproduce the soldering, even when checking all ancient (Italian) sources. However at the time, there were still some traditional goldsmiths, in remote areas of the former Etruscan area, that used similar techniques with similar results as the Etruscan jewelry. They deduced the techniques of the Etruscans from these artisans. Such an approach is not uncommon, and anthropological analysis is often applied to explain archaeological finds, especially in 'traditional societies' where little has changed over the centuries
