It may have been a wish for selfadornment that aroused the interest of Stone Age people in metals Sitting by the side of a river waiting for a fish to come within a spears throw or just idling away a moment one of our early ancestors might have happened upon a shiny yellow pebble and plucked it off the river bed It did not have the feel of stone but it was attractive In such a way one could conjecture that gold entered the lives of primitive people