Stone Age Hunter–Gatherers Traveled Long Distances to Get the Right Color Stone for Their Tools

Guests at a feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains 11,000 years ago brought wild boars from all across the land

Kathryn KillackeyHave you ever stopped by the grocery store on your way to a dinner party to grab a bottle of wine? Did you grab the first one you saw, or did you pause to think about the available choices and deliberate over where you wanted your gift to be from? The people who lived in western Iran around 11,000 years ago had the same idea – but in practice it looked a little different. In our latest research, my colleagues and I studied the r…

Stone Age hunter–gatherers traveled long distances to get the right color stone for their tools

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the raw material for the manufacture of tools.

Stone Age People Traveled Miles To Source Stunning Raw Materials, Like Red Jasper, for Tools

Learn more about the colorful and shiny stones that were turned into tools as many as 40,000 years ago, which were sometimes sourced from afar.