They had no forks nor spoons; no pots nor pans; no buckets nor shovels; no needles nor pins.
The People of the Stone Age had never seen or heard of such a thing as iron or steel or tin or brass or anything made of these metals. For thousands and thousands of years Primitive People got along without any of the things that are made of metal.
Then one day a Stone Age Man found out something by accident; a “discovery” we call it.
He was making a fire; and a fire, which is to us such a common, every-day thing, was still to him very wonderful. Round his fire he placed some rock to make a sort of camp-fire stove. Now, it happened that this particular rock was not ordinary rock but what we now call “ore,” for it had copper in it. The heat of the fire melted some of the copper out of the rock, and it ran out on the ground.
A cave man discovering copper.
What were those bright, shining drops?
He examined them.
How pretty they were!
He heated some more of the same rock and got some more copper.