Not only did people in Eurpe and Asia seek out green stone to make tools, such as hand axes, but it seems so too did people in Africa travel long distances in order to get green stone. In East Asia it was jade and in Europe various green stone outcrops in places like the Alps or the Lake District. At https://phys.org/news/2025-07-stone-age-huntergatherers-distances-tools.html … worked stone tools from sites up to 40,000 years old display evidence humans sought out colourful stone. The evidence comes from what was known as Swaziland, now known as Eswatim, situated on the border of South Africa with Mozambique. They travelled relatively long distances in order to collect red jasper and green chalcedony. The latter was sought out further back in time than the red jsaper but it is notable they are both dominant colours in auroral phenomena. This in itself is interesting as 40,000 years ago and we are back in the era of Laschamp. An excursion of the magnetic pole, and even an actual reversal occurred at this time, meaning heightened auroral phenomena that may have been visible in southern Africa.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-07-guests-feast-iran-zagros-mountains.html … we are told that feasts taking place in the Zagros Mountain zone, between Iraq and Iran, were a sign of some kind of celebration. The people concerned left behind the skulls of 19 wild boar. Hence, boars in mythology, common in Europe and in Hindu India, were it seems, associated with a mythological being, or concept, long before pigs and boars became religiously unclean, even in what is now Iran. What did the boars represent? The tusk plays a prominent role and may represent a comet and its coma, as seen from the surface of the earth. A smallish coma, no doubt, not as prominent as the long hand of Lugh, or the sword of Arthur, etc. Or the swagger stick of the Monkey God. Even the Christmas ham, in those big houses a couple of hundred years ago, had a pigs head summoned to the table and ushered in by servants on a platter. Silver plate of course. Meanwhile, nowadays it is a small ham from the supermarket that mostly adorns the Christmas table, usurped by the humble turkey but still making a bit of a show.