Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment
- Written by: Maria Guagnin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Maria Guagnin, Michael Petraglia, CC BYAbout 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what is now the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia.
We found some of the tools they left behind – and on close inspection of the tools, we discovered these Stone Age herders were busy grinding animal bones, wild...
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