Oj, “the” stone age was a very long time –
the science makes a difference between old-, middle and young-stone age. The last one ends in a time when some other regions had reached the Bronce-Time and others not
– as far as we know they travelled mostly by walking and the most of the people settled by walking around for to find food enough, in wintertime their “merchants” managed to transport goods on the frozen rivers and in other regios they prefered a dry bed of rivers or to go over hills, they made deponies on their route to let the more heavy things stay while lookinge for partners for exchanging goods – they had some central places, in the later stone age we have an example of a fire-place run about 600 years with nearly no underbreaking that residence (found in Southern France). Their merchants crossed extremely wide distances througout Europe – the “normal folks” did not go such distances.
The other possibility for travelling was going on boats (1 trunc of a tree, burning a place to sit in it and put some things in, too) or combining woods to have a swimming platform to live on it – but that needs a river and a water without problems and – that there must be a goal to visit in 1 direction – and that there ist enough to eat while living on this river.
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– The ox to ride on it was beginning in late stone age, as far as I know, in some regions they had some oxen or bears to transport heavy things and tents with them while going – maybe other peoples tried it with goats or tame dogs – nothing was done in all the world at the same time
– The horse to ride on it was much much later, and at first nobody went on a horse to sit and travel, but they enjoyed in standing on horses without falling down, acrobate plays – then they would have taken an ass, horse or mule (nature breeded mules were found in Persia, in the Iranian highland) to transport things while going with it
– The dromedar and the camel came later as the asses, mules and horses and with the dromedar came the possibility to make greater distances with carawanes between wells in a distance of several days of marching – but the marching was again by feet, only that those animals could transport the water for 1 week with them – they are the only animals which need not to drink daily – in the time before that the regions used asses in the deserts and went from well to well each night’s distance – then with the dromedars the population differed in those which frequented the old ass-routes and those who took the new greater distance-trails
– The elefant – I don’t know – maybe is as old in use as the horses
But even in the modern times, unto the midst of 19th century, the most travelling was going by feet, besides an animal or waggon to transport the heavy baggage or a weak, hurt or ill person, but they didn’t enjoy to sit in a waggon, because in the most routes the street was too bad, it was too dangerous on a waggon, and if a person wasn’t able to go but had to come with, the other people beared this one on their back, directly, or in a better or worse made construction
– the different ships and boats are longer in use as the animals and waggons, but a real travel by ship was not done regularily
– p.e.Herodot, the Greek tells in the 5th century B.E. from visiting the Nile regions, that he had only to stay a lomger time on a boat when they had to cross a sea between shores with too much stones to go – and it sounds so, that he himself did not do this trip – he reports only what would come south of Asssuan if another traveller would be interesested in visiting the southern nations of the Nile
– there were a lot of boats and ships in the river he desribes, but it seems so, that they sent perhaps a part of their baggage with the ships and preferred to go besides the river parallel
– on the other hand, in Egyptian old stories the Egyptians themselves took most frequently a boat or ship, they didn’t fear to live on the waters, because 1 third of any year nearly all Egyptland was under water, then they had their daily life in the next hills (with their cattle) or on the water
– there were “boat-people” whose job was transporting things with the water and if they came with the water, they lived with all the family on the water, they made huge trecks of boats with about 50-100 bound together – imagine a total village life between those – in the other direction they had sold the woods they lived on and went by feet, only trecking the main ships with them against the stream
– this method of life without houses might be very old and in use on several rivers in the world
– a rule seems to be:
– those people who live from the water, fishing tribes perhaps, would live and travel on the water if there is a river or a sea
– the others prefered in all ancient times to go by feet and live in houses or huts
