Before we were sentient beings there was stone. Stone has been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years and our relationship with it began 3 million years ago when the earliest tools were created by our ancestor species. Stone went on to be critical to the development of civilization, used to make shelters, weapons, spiritual sites and even art. The stone age only ended as we began to work with metal, around 2,400bc, though humanity and stone have remained intrinsically linked.
While we may not think of it in our busy lives, our connection to stone still exists and is common to us all, wherever we were born or live. It is part of
