A Stone Age village offers a glimpse of life in prehistoric Portage County

Bob Kunst in front of one of his primitive wigwams constructed with period-specific materials and tools. Jeremy Brown/The Portager

A Stone Age village offers a glimpse of life in prehistoric Portage County

- Jeremy Brown

Housing construction techniques have come a long way since the Paleolithic Period, but that didn’t stop author and anthropologist Bob Kunst from building a Stone Age village in a stand of trees on the Portage County Historical Society’s 11-acre campus in Ravenna. 

Kunst started construction on the village around 2015 for use as an interactive site to teach children and adults about what it was like to live in Portage County over 5,000 years ago with only a primitive thatched wigwam as shelter.

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