Anyone interested in Primitive Ways?

I think I've read all of them. Special favorite is "Three Hearts and Three Lions". Really liked "A Stone in Heaven", and "Knight of Ghosts and Shadows".
 
I almost mentioned Three Hearts and Three Lions in my last post, also. Sort of a Tolkien point of view, contrasting the battle against evil in our time and in the past.
 
I've stopped taking my meds. My secret friend won't talk to me when I take them.:mad:

You knew, of course, that the atlatl was developed by a pair of aboriginal twins, each of whom claimed ownership of the copyright.

In those days, twins were so rare, that the society always gave the children the same name.

Hence, Atl and Atl were named as the inventors.

To their respective deaths, they argued as to whose name was first.


Now, the ARROWS would be hard to make. But, I suppose you'd just have one of your staff buy them, too.
 
Thanks Yvsa. It sounds like you have the same grandad regrets I've got. I sure wish I'd have learned more of what both of mine were trying to teach me.
 
Harry Truman was talking about hunting for mushrooms, and needing to know which were safe to eat, and which to avoid. A reporter asked if there was a book he could read up on them. Harry looked at him in disgust and said, No, your grandmother has to teach you. But then, Harry was a real country boy, a farmer from the time they plowed with mules.
 
I read 'High Crusade' years ago and loved it. There was a short novel by R. Heinlein about a group of teenagers stranded in an alien wilderness... I'm trying desperately to think of the title but no joy. Anyhow, it was good stuff, not big on specifics (which it couldn't very well be, set on an alien world) but valuable as a primer for basic survival needs and awareness.

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wato said:
I read 'High Crusade' years ago and loved it. There was a short novel by R. Heinlein about a group of teenagers stranded in an alien wilderness... I'm trying desperately to think of the title but no joy. Anyhow, it was good stuff, not big on specifics (which it couldn't very well be, set on an alien world) but valuable as a primer for basic survival needs and awareness.

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high crusade was a good one, along with heinleins 'tunnel in the sky' (the teenage alien survival one). there is a series of novels along the lines of the high crusade where in one a roman legion is abducted by aliens to fight for them on primitive planets, and another one where an english earl and his knights and longbowmen are similarly abducted. both wind up taking over from their alien 'owners', the english ones wind up running the galaxy, while the roman ones return to earth in the 20th c. (relatavistic time effects) and cause a bit of a stir.

primitive does NOT mean ineffective. for example, stone tools are sharper than our modern steel ones, just a bit more fragile - surgeons will frequently use knapped flint scalpels for eye surgery, they cut with less effort and damage to other tissue & thus heal faster.........
 
l've been toying around with the atlatl for about ten years.

They are more powerful than one might think.
 
Thanks Yvsa....best thread in quite a while...thanks Esav and all y'all for some reading suggestions and some great web sites!
 
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