Anyone interested in Primitive Ways?

This site is what got me into really wanting to make my own knives I also learned a lot of ineresting stuff too
 
aliloff said:
This site is what got me into really wanting to make my own knives I also learned a lot of ineresting stuff too
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Thanks Mark, another great site with umpteen kinds of information.:thumbup: :cool: :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Of course, Oetzi was equipped with the best available at the time. :)
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Yup, sure was Esav! IIRC the Primitive Ways site says that Otzi was carrying something like 17 or more different plant goods on his person somewhere or another. Interesting that he had a birch bark bowl with leaves and grasses in it that possibly held a live ember from his last fire, lot's easier to carry fire with you than making new fire!
What I found most intriguing of all is that Otzi was attacked and wounded grievously by some fellow humans. Talks about wishing that Otzi's artifacts could talk!!!!:thumbup: :eek: :cool:
 
Yes. Very interested Yvsa.

Actually, I'm dying to know more about herbology for food and medicine. I've checked into classes here in GA. And last week found one. A Cherokee guy offers. I was stoked. But, it turned out to be a two day, weekend type of class, and with the new baby, thats too much for me. Maybe next year.

I've learned a LOT from the internet, including tons from here. But somehow no matter how much I read up on edible plants, it gives no confidence about choosing and eating one in the wild.

I know a few. Cattails, willow bark, poplar bark, dandelions. But I'm woefully underequipped to survive with those few options, and have no knowledge of medicinally valuable plants.

Great site. I'll be tearing it apart next week!!! Thanks.
 
Fiddleback said:
Yes. Very interested Yvsa.

Actually, I'm dying to know more about herbology for food and medicine.

I've learned a LOT from the internet, including tons from here. But somehow no matter how much I read up on edible plants, it gives no confidence about choosing and eating one in the wild.

Great site. I'll be tearing it apart next week!!! Thanks.
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Andy you might glean some info from Native Tech and some of these other sites.:D ;) Most of what I know was what my grandfather taught and showed me in my early years but I wish I knew a lot more.

http://www.nativetech.org/

http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/index.php

http://marilee.us/nativeamericans.html

This is a list of excellent books about wild foods.
Bradford Angier usually has well laid out books with drawings and pics...
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pweb...+"wild+plants+edible"&CNT=25+records+per+page
 
xinel said:
An awesome book for survival is the SAS survival guide :)
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Yup, if it's anything like the military survival manual my son sent me it is.:thumbup: :D One good rule of thumb is to not eat anything that's red unless you know exactly what it is. When my son lived in Mississippi we went out gathering one day and picked some beautiful red beans. I had it in mind to drill them with a small hole so they could be used as beads.
A few days after we returned home I got a call from my son telling me that they were Coral Beans and several people had died from making necklaces out of them and then putting them in their mouth. I don't put things like that in my mouth anyway but I never did drill them and I have them in jars marked as poisonous! :eek:
Later on my son sent me the military survival manual where he had found the info and it's a great survival guide with all sorts of info.:thumbup: :cool:
 
Yvsa, thanks a lot for the PrimativeWays link. Lots of fascinating information there. Not far from me, either.

Of course, I got sidetracked by Atlatl Bob. Might have to break down and buy one. The neighbors are going to LOVE me.
 
And scrapping the bark off a branch with a limb stub at the end is beyond your evening capabilities?

right. Let's go camping in the wilderness. You'll be lunch.


sheez.
 
I suppose, someone without ANY aesthetic sensibilities would consider it sufficient to denude by gnawing it off between huge, yellow, prehensile teeth... no, that's not quite right, is it? Anyway, my preference is to first observe the work of a master, then attempt imitation.
 
If it were up to you, instead of the wheel, we'd have the trapezoid on vehicles.



sheez.


sissywuss.:rolleyes:
 
There was a great story, by Poul Anderson, in a collection of sort stories called "The Trouble Twisters". Read it in high school (it was printed on the original Gutenberg press). Intergalactic traders (David Falkayn was an apprentice, back then) landed on world that considered the circle sacred, and not to be used in any mechanical device. It was necessary to move an engine assembly (I think) overland, without the use of wheels. A very good read. I won't spoil it for anyone who wants to dig that up.

More likely a rhombus, which is a cock-eyed square.

"sissywuss". And you're repeating yourself. Time for your meds?
 
Ever read The High Crusade, aliens landing in a medieval English village and getting their ship taken over? I have to dig that out & read it again, it was so much fun. (He was an enthusiastic member of the Society of Creative Anachronism.)
 
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