Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills Paperback – Illustrated, 1 April 1999

This review applies to both Earth skills and Ancestral skills as I feel the same toward both.Very good book for someone who wants to be able to walk into the wild with nothing but bare hands and a brain full of know how. Covers everything you could wish to know to survive and thrive, would recommend to anyone intrested in getting back to basics and living as evolution intended.

Excellent book very useful for Old Survivalists like myself.

Extremely informative with some useful ideas

Lots of spelling mistakes and sentence construction uncertain but some good info' and fresh thoughts, particularly on firelighting.

an excellent insight into primitive technologies

Interesting book.. Will have to try some of the experiments.

when I stumbled upon this book and its sister book I was as pleased as Punch. This has been a lifelong interest of mine and this book is a gold mine I cannot say enough good things about it and I recommend it highly.

If you are curious about what primitive technology is about this book will give you a good introduction. Lots of cool drawings and pics but don't expect step by step, hand held instructions for the multitude of topics covered in this compilation. If you don't know much about this stuff then some vocabulary may be new to you such as atlatls, celt, haft, biface, pecking and the list goes on. It was new for me but I found that my interests grew deeper and soon found myself buying books on flintknapping (did I have money for that...?) which I knew next to nothing about not too long ago. Inspirational in so many regards with some reasonable instruction from pics and words combined but I think these articles were intended for those with some background in the subject. Many short articles with great tidbits for the outdoorsman. A taste of this and a flavor of that by leading authorities whose expertise is compiled into one book. I recommend it highly not only for the curious but the outdoorsman, survivalist and tinkerer! I love that little knife in the middle foreground on the cover!

Shipping was great! Bought this as a gift and the recipient was very pleased with this book

If you like or love the outdoors, or even curious about how early man did things, this is the book for you to really learn. From building shelters, making weapons and tools.Did you know they had a rock that was sharper than a operating room scapel. They show a microscope comparison, the stone was way sharper.This is a book you will keep handy to pick up and re read time and again.Its amazing how well thy used such primative tools, grass, and plants to do so many things. Even using a certain tree bark which has some of the same ingredients as asprin.

Lots of great information from experts I .respect