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Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills
by
Steven M. Watts
At long last Steve Watts has put together the book
we've all been
waiting for--Practicing Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills. For
years we've been treated to a tantalizing, trickling stream of Watts'
tidbits of aboriginal skills. They have been scattered far and wide in
various publications and handouts. But now, he has assembled them all
under one cover. With this book, Watts has laid us a trail we will be
following for years to come. And so our ancestral skills and values are
passed into the future." -- Errett Callahan, PhD Primitive technology
can help us explore the world of our prehistoric past. Insights into
our ancestors may provide insights into ourselves. Practicing
Primitive: A Handbook of Aboriginal Skills is the result of more than
20 years of one man's thinking and writing about the stone-age heritage
we all share. It's a book designed to inform and inspire Prehistorian
Steven M. Watts directs the Aboriginal Studies Program at the Schiele
Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina. He is a founding
board member and current president of the Society of Primitive
Technology.
Paperback.
240 pages.
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Survival Skills of the North
American Indians
by
Peter Goodchild (Forward by Tamarack Song)
How did Native North Americans solve the problems of daily
living
with no metal tools, little settled agriculture, and a habitat that,
for vast stretches of the North American continent and much of the
year, is inhospitably cold, dry or hot? This comprehensive review of
Native American life skills describes how people harvested plants for
food and medicine and provides background, step-by-step instructions,
and detailed diagrams for crafting tools, shelter, clothing, and other
devices with the Native materials and techniques.
This book gives a solid, in-depth introduction to
plant and animal
foods, tools, fishing and hunting, bows and arrows, medicine, clothing,
transportation, shelter, cordage, basketry, pottery, hide preparation,
and fire.
In our opinion this is the best book available
covering material culture.
"This book containes many good details for
primitive-living
enthusiasts as well as historians. The material on Indian cultures of
the far north is especially enlightening." - Larry Dean Olsen, author
of Outdoor Survival Skills
"The most comprehensive skills book I've found -
my textbook of
choice for my Native Lifeway classes. It is unique in that it presents
skills in relation to habitat and culture, then hones in on an array of
specific skills, giving accurate and detailed technical information,
along with regional adaptions." - Tamarack Song, from the forward of
the book.
Paperback. hundreds of illustrations. 241 pages.
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Native American Basketry of the
Seneca and Tlingit
edited by Richard Schneider
The original inhabitants of North America
practiced a number of
basketmaking skills, many of which have become quite rare today as the
eldery practitioners find fewer and fewer apprentices to continue these
traditional crafts. Although baskety remains popular in the Southwest
where the craft flourishes undiminished to the present day, much of
basketmaking in the northern United States and Canada has disappeared,
and fewer and fewer contemporary examples find their way to trading
posts and other dealers.
Splint baskets, formed by plaiting flat strips
which are tediously
harvested from the indigenous black ash tree of the Great Lakes and New
England regions, appears to be disapperaing with the present generation
of craftswomen. Lismer's account of the Senecas of New York state, a
representative group fifty years ago, remains basically unchanged in
techniques and procedures today. On the opposite side of the continent,
split and peeled spruce roots of the Pacific Northwest are still used
by some Tlingits who laboriously twine these with incredibly fine
detail into modestly sized soft baskets, today more prized as works of
art than for their functional values.
This book contains the complete 1941 edition of
"Senece Splint
Basketry" by Marjorie Lismer, consisting of 40 pages with 15
phtotgraphic plates, 11 line drawings, and 2 maps. It also includes the
complete 1944 edition of "Spruce Root Basketry of the Alaskan Tingit"
by Frances Paul, which contains 80 pages with 36 photographic plates,
13 line drawings, 60 authentic designs, and one map.
Paperback, 80 pages.
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Craft Manual of North American
Indian Footwear
by George White
The moccasin-making bible picks up where our hide
tanning books
leave off and shows one way to use those buckskins. Clear, complete,
easy-to-follow instructions with detailed drawings of pattern layouts
for 26-moccasin styles. All the main types found on the continent from
Navajo and Sioux to Northwest Coast and Southeastern Woodlands.
Includes patterns, measuring and stitching techniques. Over 100
illustrations and sketches. (See
Moccasin Making video.)
Paperback, 71 pages, extensively illustrated.
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Craft Manual of Yukon Tlingit
by George White
This book gives a short history with general
information and
instructions for making dolls, snowshoes, solo and tandem moose (or
deer, elk) hide boats, woodcarvings, bonework, moccasins and a clever
deadfall trap.
Paperback, 56 pages.
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Indian Handcrafts: How to Craft
Dozens of Practical Objects Using
Traditional Indian Techniques
by C. Keith Wilbur
For thousands of years the Indians of
the Northeast lived by
their
wits, fabricating the articles needed for daily life from materials
they found in nature. Now you can reproduce these authentic objects by
following the clear, step-by-step instructions in this richly
illustrated book.
Indian Handcrafts explains how each object evolved, how it
was
used, and what tools and materials you need to re-create it. C. Keith
Wilbur carefully researched the methods described and actually made and
tested each of the handcrafts. All the necessary supplies, he says, can
be found free of charge, in the great outdoors - just as the Indians
did.
You can learn how to:
- Shape a duck decoy from dried cat-o-nine tails.
- Bend and lash green saplings to form a wigwam frame.
- Use porcupine quills to apply natural dyes to your handmade
moccasins
- Build a rubbing stick so you can start campfires "from
scratch" and much more.
This intriguing book preserves authentic Indian handcraft
methods
and serves as an enduring tribute to Native American ingenuity and
craftsmanship.
A work of art - hundreds of quality pen-and-ink
drawings and a
hand-lettered text clearly show the execution of over 40 woodland
crafts, from dugout canoes to wigwams to fish spears to snowshoes to
toys to Maple syruping. A good first craft book because of its broad
scope.
Large-format paperback, 140 pages.
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Flintknapping: The Art of Making
Stone Tools
by
Paul Hellweg
This book is a complete "how to" book on the
manufacture of
arrowheads and other stone tools. This book contains everything the
beginner needs to know to make his or her own stone arrowheads,
speakheads, knives, axes, hammers, mortar/pestle sets, and related
artifacts. All information is presented in an easily understood stop by
step format, and understanding is further enhanced by the effective use
of numerous illustrations.
A concise primer for pressure flaking arrowheads
and
pecking-and-grinding axes, hammers, and food grinding tools. Covers raw
materials, tools, advanced techniques and hafting (mounting).
Paperback,
111 pages.
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Flintknapping: Making and
Understanding Stone Tools
by John Whittaker
Flintknapping, the making of stone tools, is an
ancient craft
enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional
students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John Whittaker
offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available
and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of
interpreting stone tools as well as archaeological perspective of
interperting stone tools as well as making them.
Flintknapping contains
detailed, practical information on
making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and
progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes
information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step
instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous
diagrams allow the read to visualize the flintknapping process, and
drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as
models for beginning knappers.
The arrowhead bible; covers the ground of the
above book in
greater detail, along with chapters on flint knapping history, how
stone tools changed through time and using stone tools.
"This is the best, most thorough summary available on flaked
stone
technology. The book skillfully blends instruction on how to make stone
tools with information on how to interpret flaked stone artifacts." -
Denis Gilpin, Northern Arizona Archaeology Society Newsletter
"Whittaker presents this information at a level
that will be
readable by non-anthropologists as well as specialists in the
field...far superior to anything currently available." - James C.
Woods, director, The Herrett Museum, College of Southern Idaho.
Paperback, 341 pages.
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Participating in Nature: Thomas
J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills
by Thomas J. Elpel
Get in touch with your wild side! Primitive living
is a way of
learning about nature by participating in it. Instead of merely camping
in the wilderness or passing through it, you can become part of the
process. You learn about nature by using it to meet your needs for
shelter, fire, water, and food. You set aside the trappings of modern
culture and step directly into nature with little or nothing, to
experience nature on its own terms.
Tom's guide gives you a direct, hands-on
experience of the world
around you. With this book you have the opportunity to discover the
thrill of staying warm and comfortable without even a blanket!
Experience the magic of starting a fire by friction. Butcher your own
deer and braintan its hide to make warm buckskin clothing. Learn about
edible plants of the Rocky Mountain region, plus processing techniques
and "primitive gourmet" skills like making wild strawberry ashcake pies
or stir-fry cooking without a pan.
This book is the source for in depth coverage of tire
sandals,
bedroll packs and pack frames, felting with wool, quick bows and bone
arrowheads, sinews, hide glue, trapping, fishing by hand, water
purification, birch bark canisters, willow baskets, primitive pottery,
wooden containers, cordage, twig deer, stalking skills, simple stone
knives, flint & steel, bowdrill and handdrill fire-starting.
Participating in Nature includes dozens of innovative skills
and
an incredible 350 pictures and illustrations plus a thoughtful
philosophy. Tom does extensive experiential research. He places an
emphasis on publishing new information that is not found in any other
source.
Large-format paperback, 152 pages. 6th Edition.
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Native American Architecture
by Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
For many people, Native American architecture
calls to mind the
wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building
traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific
structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing,
dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing
and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In
effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life.
The collaboration between an architect and an
anthropologist, Native American Architecture
presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North
American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov
and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major
tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge
plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns
and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of
the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book
offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a
new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture.
Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings,
villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of
space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious
beliefs.
Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian
building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume
also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings
(including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural
renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode
the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
Richly illustrated with both archival and contemporary
photos, this text is the Native shelter bible.
"[A] long-needed study...A brilliant and beautiful book. Not
for
one hundred years has there been an attempt to describe the full range
of Native American buildings, but it has been worth the wait for this
magnificent survey that covers the breadth of the continent from the
Arctic to northern Mexico." - Allan Temoko, San Francisco
Chronicle
"Definitive...This is a book about ritual,
religion, and family
life as much as it is about buildings...The authors' knowing
observations on this subject have much to tell students of all kinds of
architecture, far beyond the wigwam and the pueblo." - Paul Goldberger,The New York Times Book Review
Large-format paperback, 431 pages.
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Outdoor Survival Skills
by Larry Dean Olson
Precise, usable instructions our basic necessary
skills by a man
with decades of experience in both teaching and practicing them.
Covered are shelter fire, water, plants, animals, bow making, knapping,
hide tanning. Oriented to the semi-arid west, yet most skills
applicable anywhere.
6th edition, Paperback, 223 pages.
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Primitive Outdoor Skills
by Richard Jamison
This book is a handbook of survival skills for
people who want to
live a little closer to nature - people who, if only for brief
intervals (or more), feel inclined to leave civilization behind and
experience a simpler, less-pressured life style. These skills are both
practical and fun - they represent a relaxing hobby as well as a
potentially life-saving knowledge for wilderness or disaster survival.
This book is a unique manual of outdoor skilsl writeen by an impressive
group of natioally acclaimed expert instructors.
The information offered in this book will interest the
student who
wants to broaden his or her horizons to include primitive skills, the
instructor who is looking for unique, time-tested methods to share with
his students, and the hunter or fisherman who wants to increase his
enjoyment of the outdoors through expanded knowledge.
This book comprises a broad selection of
field-tested skills,
presented in easy-to-follow instructions that will help both the novice
and the expert outdoors person master the techniques, in addition to
the philosophy of the self-sufficient life style, a diverse range of
subjects are presented. You can learn the technique of primitive arrow
manufacturing, cooking in an underground pit, or hot draft bed
constuction. You can learn how to survive in winter conditions, weave
bulrush baskets and tan fur, or learn the techniques of building a
bulrush boat, baking in a clay oven, and crafting with stone tools.
These are just a few of the skills you can instruct yourself in.
As you read, you will learn to appreciate the
goals of the authors
- that of preserving the craftsmanship of aboriginal skills, and
restoring primeval nature as a basic source of happiness and serenity.
More articles selected from Woodsmoke Journal:
easy stone tools.
steam-pit cooking, bulrush weaving, easy snow caves, digging sticks,
what to do if lost, and more.
Hardcover, 141 pages.
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Woodsmoke: Collected Writings on
Ancient Living Skills
by Richard and Linda Jamison
This volume contains twenty illustrated articles
on primitive ways
of life, including descriptions of hunting and fishing techniques,
pottery, crafting, stone tool making, basketry, tracking, fire making,
even "caveman philosophy!"
Richard Jamison has taken many striking photos
that add a special
spark to this book, which include articles by Larry Dean Olsen, Steve
Watts, Paul Hellweg, Ernest Wilkinson, David Wescott, Jim Riggs, Linda
Jamison and many more.
This book offers great advice for outdoor
enthusiasts who want to
experience nature as the ancient aborigines did. With step-by-step
instructions everyone can follow, Woodsmoke
offers the best
of nature - whether as a lifestyle, or an afternoon activity - to those
who enjot the serenity and beauty of creation.
Woodsmoke is more than
entertainment, and more than a
how-to text; it offers readers access to a life once common among
primitive man. The writers of Woodsmoke -
practicing
archaeologists and anthropologists, primitive practitioners, craftsmen
and women, and artisans - believe that by rediscoverying our ancient
life skills can we better understand what we are capable of achieving
in the world today.
Paperback, 256 pages.
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The Best of Woodsmoke: A Manual
of Primitive Outdoor Skills
by Richard Jamison
This book provides new approaches and time-tested
methods for the
novice, sound practical help for the experienced outdoors person.
Instead of the usual survival-in-a-kit approach,
this book
presents the reader with an "over the shoulder" view of the aboriginal
life style. The authors give detailed advice on such diverse subjects
as building an authentic wickiup; primitive fire-making; locating water
in the desert; constructing a stone axe; deadfall trapping techniques;
primitive fishing; collecting wild yeast; the complete use of the Deer;
surviving a blizzard; making a hot bed; and much, much more.
Each chapter give easy-to-understand instructions.
Nowhere will
you find a more authorative selection of hows and whys. In addition to
the easy-to-grasp style which will help you master the skills, a
complete index will make this book a valuable study guide.
By the time you have read a few page of Woodsmoke,
you
will be aware that it is unique. No shortcuts are offered, because
primitive survial is an art; no arm-chair research is included; because
the authors are totally immersed in their skills.
The articles for this book were carefully chosen
for the student
who has just discovered an interest in primitive skills; for the
instructor who is searching for time-tested methods; for the hunter or
fisherman who enjoys all outdoor activities; for the hobbyist who
prides himself on new discoveries; and most particularly, for the
person who has a desire to "live" the peaceful and unaffected life
style of the aborgine, by manufacturing one's needs from what nature is
willing to provide, by tempering one's desires, and by learning to
ignore the modern measure of time and accept the timelessness of
necessity.
Hardcover, 157 pages.
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Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills
for the 2lst Century
by Bart and Robin Blankenship
This book is a comprehensive how-to book for using
Stone Age
skills to fulfill your daily needs from materials readily at hand.
Anyone who tries these ideas will find them environmentally appropiate
and uniquely fulfilling. Valuable tips for those actually intending to
live by the crafts/skills.
Here are just a few skills to enrich your experience and
give you a feeling of self-reliance:
- Twist and weave strong cord and rope from plant
and animal fibers.
- Learn the basics of flintnapping.
- Boil a batch of natural hude glue, one of the strongest
adhesives known.
- Extract natural dyes and pigments from Earth and plants.
- Create a flute, drumm or tambourine for hours of musical
fun.
- Cut and stitch an elegant buckskin skirt or skirt.
- Mold a clay pot for cooking.
- Brew pine needles tea or mix a batch of acorn muffins.
In-depth chapters on friction fire, cordage and
nets, primitive
tools, natural dyes, containers (gourd, wood, clay, willow), food and
cooking soaps, pitch, hide and fish skin glue, rattles, drums and
flutes.
"Over the years, Bart and Robin Blanketship have walked an
ancient
path. From there, they stepped into a world of teaching and helping
others through their Earth Knack program. Their skills are proven in
real life, whre a piece of sage bark string often made the difference
between survival and going to bed hungry. Earth Knack
is a
collection of ancient living principles and skills to be valued and
practiced by all those who desire to make it on the land. There is
nothing primitive about Stone Age living; The Blankenships have
captured in this book the beauty and calmness of a gentle walking on
ancient paths." - Larry Dean Olsen, author of Outdoor
Survival Skills
"If your backpack and bookcase are absolutely
full, toss something, because you've got to make
room for this. Besides being an inexhaustible treasure-house of ancient
lore, Earth Knack provides a heartwarming
heave-ho to the arrogant notion that technology is something we
invented. Thank you Bart and robin for helping us remember what must
never be forgotten!" - Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
"With well-practiced techniques and solid
foundations for each skill area, Earth Knack
brings the primitive world headlong into the 21st century. Bart and
Robin Blankenship have gone way beyond simple collection a quaint
sampling of vahishing arts. Earth Knack is the
first book since Outdoor Survival Skills
to redirect popular culture to a renewed sense of belonging to the land
while presenting a starter kit of projects that helps us on our way.
The Blankenships call attention to the fact that woodslore is alive and
well and holds a legitmate place in outdoor education." - David
Wescott, managing editior of the Bulletin of Primitive
Technology
Paperback, 192 pages.
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Ojibwa Crafts
by Carrie Lyford
In the first half of the twentieth century, the
Ojibwa (Chippewa)
people of the western Great Lakes region still retainted many of their
in traditional tribal ways of life - ways of life which included a
wealth of ingenious and clever crafts based upon their understandings
and use of natural local materials. With few tools but a long history,
skilled artisans created the everyday articles needed for shelter, food
preperations, clothing, and ceremonials; they also found time to make
decorative items for exchange at trading posts or for sale to tourists
who passed through their lands.
Carrie Lyford observed the tribes of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and
Minnesota and recorded this story of their material culture artifacts.
This book, first published in 1943, inlcudes maple sugar making, wild
rice harvesting, birch bark canoes and baskets, quill and beadwork
(dozens of designs), hide tanning, native dyes and more.
Photographs are amplifies by verbal descriptions
of the
manufacture and use of the objects. Of particular interest to many
scholars are the Ojibwa names given for most of these crafts. A
splendid bibliography is appended as a guide for further study.
Paperback, 216 pages.
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Survival Arts of the Primitive
Paiutes
by Margaret Wheat
Those of us who desire to learn primitive skills are often
stuck
in the situation of "reinventing the wheel". Skills that were developed
by native peoples over thousands of years were often reduced to cryptic
notes in ethnographic works, such as "The pine nuts were harvested,
roasted and hulled." We are left to trial and error to rediscover what
was once well known.
Originally published in 1967, Survival Arts of the
Primitive
Paiutes is a unique ethnographic work, because author Margaret M. Wheat
provided step-by-step photo-documentation of key skills used by the
Paiute Indians in the Great Basin Desert. These are real skills
demonstrated by the people who once depended on them. Some of the
skills covered include: harvesting and processing pine nuts, tule
boats, duck decoys, cordage, harpoons, fishing and drying fish,
deadfalls, rabbitskin blankets, clothes woven from sagebrush bark, tule
baskets, split-willow work, cradleboards, tule and grass hut
construction. Coverage of braintanning and arrow-making is more sketchy.
Margaret M. Wheat spent twenty years gaining the acceptance
of the
elder Paiutes to record their skills and stories before they were lost
forever. Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes
is a classic and elegant work with stunning black and white photography.
Oversize paperback, 117 pages.
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Primitive Technology: A Book of
Earth Skills
edited by David Wescott
From deep within the caverns of time, like-minded primitive
technologists have felt an irresistible urge to come together around
the campfire and share ideas. This urge to share has reverberated
throughout the centuries.
Living in modern society, we have become
increasingly
disassociated from the Earth, from the essence of ourselves, and the
need is awakened in us to return to the wilderness - physically and
emotionally. We long to feel a sense of connection with our ancient
roots. This urge is what has prompted man's fascination with primitve
skills: producing objects from natural materials using methods similar
to prehistoric cultures.
This book is a sharing of ideas - the
philosophies, the history,
and the personal stories by the authorities on primitive technology
from the 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
resources and, ultimately, with the creative forces that constructed
the foundation of man's survival on the planet.
Oversize paperback, 250 pages.
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Primitive Technology II:
Ancestral Skills
edited by David Wescott
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills
continues the tradition of
preserving our ancestral heritage. Through this collection, assembled
from
the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, we step into the past to relearn
old
ways, and share them with the future. Learn to create stone tools that
may
be used to fabricate more complex technologies. Master the art of the
bow
and arrow, and the preparation of food. Build a shelter or fashion
clothing
from fibers or buckskin. Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills will
guide you to a better understanding of the skills and crafts that bind
us
all into this great human family.
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills includes
more reprints of valuable
articles from back issues of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology that
are
no longer in print, plus many new and descriptive additions that have
never
been seen before.
Due to the high cost of reproduction for single
issues of the Bulletin and
the demand from new members for access to this valuable information,
the
Society of Primitive Technology has produced this second edition of
Primitive Technology. This book contains the outstanding writing, photo
essays and charts that are found in each issue of the Bulletin. Plus
the
Editor has added many new sidebars and tidbits of information never
before
published by the Society. It's a true collector's item for every member
of
the Society of Primitive Technology.
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION: SEARCHING THE PAST
When the People Gather by David Wescott
Collective Vision and Our Evolving Culture by Catherine St.
John
Metaphors for Living: Questing for Insights by Thomas J.
Elpel
Primitive Technology and The "New" Archaeology by
Maria-Louise Sidoroff
Field Archaeology by John White
Random Thoughts on Tradition vs. Technology by Norm Kidder
Artifacts & Ethics by Thomas J. Elpel
Ethics & Collecting: A Question by David Wescott
SECTION 2: FOOD SOURCES: EATING TO LIVE
Slim, Trim and Paleo-Indian: Why Our Diets Are Killing Us by
Vaughn Bryant
Jr.
Wild Plant Economics by Thomas J. Elpel
Roast of the Century: Mescal and the Mescalero Apache by Mark
Rosacker with
Susan Burneson
Burning and Scraping: A Southeastern Indian Corn Mortar by
Steve Watts
Aboriginal Cookery by Alice Ross
Various Food Gathering Methods by Charles Spear
Trapping: Take A New/Old Look by Matt McMahon
"Rocking On" With The Paiute Deadfall: Its Prehistory,
Construction and Use
by Jim Riggs
Sampson Post Deadfall by James Andal
Reflections On a Rabbit Stick by Jim Allen
Southeastern Indian Rabbit Sticks by Steve Watts
More on Rabbitsticks by David Wescott
SECTION 3: CONTAINERS: HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER
Introduction to Ceramic Replication by Maria Louise Sidoroff
Primitive Pottery Firing: Lenape Indian Village by
Maria-Louise Sidoroff
A Method For Firing Primitive Pottery by Evard Gibby
Various Containers by David Wescott
How To Cook In Primitive Pottery by Errett Callahan
An Introduction to NW Coast Woodwork by Gregg Blomberg
Southeastern Indian Gourd Buckets by Steve Watts
Barking Up the Right Tree... Construction of The Juniper Bark
Berry Basket
by Jim Riggs
Make A Mountain Bark Basket by Doug Elliott
Variation On A Theme: Aspen Bark Containers by David Wescott
Bark Canteens: Carrying Water Primitively by Anthony Follari
The Uses of Birch Bark by Jim Miller
Pinch Pots by Charles Spear
SECTION 4: PROJECTILES: BOWS & ARROWS
Your First Primitive Bow by Tim Baker
Sticks and Stones Will Make My Bow by Barry Keegan
Wood Under Stress by Hari Heath
The Causes of Arrow Speed by Tim Baker
Southeastern Rivercane Arrow Notes by Steve Watts
A Note On Primitive Bow Making: Or The Secrets of Sinew
Revealed by Dick
Baugh
Archery In The Arctic: Part I by Errett Callahan
Artcic Archery: Part II by Errett Callahan
Arctic Archery: Part II by Errett Callahan
On The Cutting Edge: Stone Tool Bow Making by Bart
Blankenship
The 30 Minute Bow by Jim Allen
SECTION 5: BUCKSKIN: ENOUGH BRAINS TO TAN YOUR
HIDE
Working Hides With Stone, Bone and Antler Tools by Steven
Edholm
A Variety of Wood, Bone and Stone Awls by Steve Watts
Buckskin Babblings Edited by Alice Tulloch
Subcutaneous Stitch For Buckskin by Chris Morasky
Tan Your Hides With Nature's Tools by Jim Miller
Brains, Bones and Hot Springs: Native American Deerskin
Dressing at the Time
of Contact by Matt Richards
SECTION 6: TRANSPORTATION: MOVING ALONG
Primitive Travel Gear by Matt McMahon
Primitive Fiber Bundle Watercraft: A Materials Primer by
Steve Watts
Tule Boats by Dick Baugh
The Scapular Saw: A Stone and Bone Age Project by Norm Kidder
Diegueno Rawhide Sandals by Paul Campbell
Ga-o-wo: Building An Iroquis Elm-Bark Canoe by Michael Kerwin
The Canoe Tree by D. R. Doerres
Mud and Fire: Tools of the Dugout Canoe Maker by Terry Powell
A Carved Boat From the Northwest Coast by Gregg Blomberg
Danish Neolithic Boat Project by Errett Callahan
The Ancient Coracle by Maria Louis Sidoroff
Yucca and Agave Fiber Sandals of Southern California by Paul
Campbell
Light On The Subject of Cave Art by Maria-Louise Sidoroff
Conquering The Darkness: Primitive Lighting Methods by
Benjamin Pressley
SECTION 7: BACK TO BASICS: TOOLS THROUGH TIME
The Lower Paleolithic by Steve Watts
On The Deceptive Simplicity of Lower Paleolithic Tools by
John J. Shea
Paleo "Bashed" Tools: A Story by Chas. Spear
The Bipolar Technique: The Simplest Way To Make Stone Tools
by Errett
Callahan
Easy To Make "Pebble" Tools by Paul Hellweg
Bow-Drill Fire Making Equipment by Steve Watts
Simple Comparative Tests Between Oldowan, Abbevillian and
Acheulian
Technology Edited by Errett Callahan
A Quick Guide to Classic Old World Paleolithic Chopper and
Handaxe Forms by
Steve Watts
Handaxmanship by Steve Watts
Hand-Drill Fire Making by Steven Edholm
More On Fire by Friction by Evard Gibby
Ready To Use Stone Containers by Jeff Gottlieb
Bark Cordage Fishing Line by Steve Watts
Making Cordage by Hand by Norm Kidder
Some Shelter Concepts by Mors Kochanski
Paperback, 248 Pages.
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