Why Primitive Skills?
Humanity lived by using these skills for hundreds of thousands of years. It is only in the relatively short past that they have been abandoned by most cultures, considering them primitive and inferior. I hope you’ll see that these skills are anything but inferior, but really quite ingenious. Modern people may scoff, siting the marvels of technology, but without technology where would we be? Most people have no idea how anything works or their knowledge is limited to one or two specialties. Most people could not survive if our modern tools were taken away. Primitive skills give you a freedom, whether you want to feel safer in your outdoor activities or whether you see there is real potential to need them to survive in the future.
Primitive Skills: These sections contain photographs and video of some of the skills used in the book.
Atlatl
Baskets
Bone Tools
Bows
Camouflage and movement (includes activities)
Coal Burning
Cooking
Fire by Friction
Fishing
Food Preservation
Hide Tanning
Miscellaneous
Lighting
Observation and Awareness Activities
Pottery
Rawhide
Shelters
Stone Tools
Traps