Primitive technology

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In today’s day and age, most people are pretty familiar with two things: technology and social media.And so YouTube channel “Primitive Technology” combined both of these fascinations when it started uploading videos of a man building tools and crafts using only wild materials and his own two hands. It quickly became an internet sensation, amassing over 10 million subscribers and reaching fans around the world.But then, just as suddenly, this super-popular channel disappeared from our…

In today's world of modern conveniences, it can be a rewarding and educational experience to create functional items by hand using traditional techniques.

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It is debated that around 12,000 years ago the first peoples set foot in the Midwest, coming up from the south, as the land to the north was still covered by the Wisconsin glacier of the Ice Age. As the climate warmed and the ice receded plant and animal life re-established. Animal life was quite different than today with varities of megafauna, distinctly large animals of this period - mammoth, mastodon, giant bison, ground sloths, and beaver. Also found was the camel, horse, peccary, and…

Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills is a sharing of ideas--the philosophies, the history, and the personal stories by the authorities on primitive technology from teh pages of The Bulletin of Primitive Technology. Included are instructions for creating fire and tools of wood, stone, and bone, as well as fiber adhesives, projectiles, art, and music. Practicing these primitive methods will lead the seeker towards a tangible, raw connection with the ancient past, with nature's…

As a history lesson or possible backyard project, this stone oven is a handy piece of knowledge worth consideration.

Learn the most important primitive bushcraft skills with these 10 projects, builds and structures that don't require tools or technology.

We haven’t checked in on the Primitive Technology guy in awhile and — whoa, he has umasked himself! After more than four yea

The sun felt warm on my skin in the cool spring air today...I'm ready for spring. Having some time to relax, I found a piece of chert in the rock pile and thinned out a preform. Taking the pressure flaker to it, I ended up with this three inch blade in search of a nice elk antler handle (a strand of sinew lying beside). I love rocks...I think, for the potential of what they can become. I catch myself scanning the stones in the parking lot, when I go to work, picking out the pieces. Limonite…