Early human trading deals

HUMANS have been trading for at least 320,000 years, says research.

Anthropologists found that early homo sapiens in Kenya’s Olorgesailie Basin were exchanging goods with distant groups, using colour pigments, and making stone tools.

That dates it to tens of thousands of years earlier than thought.

Dr Rick Potts, of the US’s Smithsonian Natural History museum, said it “involved greater mental abilities and social lives”.