As Neolithic people across the Middle East began to utilize copper tools, then bronze tools, slowly Crete was changing too. During the 4th millennium BCE metalworking became popular across the Aegean, and people began to use gold, silver, and copper for jewelry. A larger and more pronounced class of nobles emerged in the Aegean during this millennium, with their status cemented by the ownership of symbols of prestige, such as: gold strips, schematic figurines, silver earrings, copper pins…