Primitive skills

Primitive skills is a term used by naturists and "back-to-the-landers" that refers to prehistoric handicrafts and pre-industrial technology. Primitive skills are those skills that relate to living off the land, often using handcrafted tools made from naturally gathered materials. Examples of primitive skills include: gathering and foraging native plants and animals for food, skinning and preparing game, basketry and pot making, constructing shelters, fire making, and useful plant identification.

Interest in primitive skills has coincided with a resurgence in interest in natural and self-sufficient living techniques. In North America primitive skills enthusiasts often emulate Native-American traditional crafts. In Europe primitive skills enthusiasts often practice traditional Bronze and Iron Age art forms.

ee also

*List of plants with edible leaves
*Flintknapper

External links

* [http://www.wildfoodadventures.com/ Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants and Other Foragables]
* [http://www.primitiveskills.org/ Earthskills Rendezvous] Non-profit organization that hosts several primitive skills events/gatherings.
* [http://www.woodlandsurvival.com/ Pine Home] : Primitive Skills, Outdoor Safety and Wilderness Survival Instructional site with pics,skills instructions, knife reviews, forum disussinging primitive skills, outdoor events and gatherings.
* [http://www.mapsgroup.org/ Midatlantic Primitive Skills Group] Non-profit organization that hosts several primitive skills events/gatherings as well as classes oin the lithic arts, trapping, tracking and more.
* [http://www.primitiveskills.com/ Maine Primitive Skills School] Our goal is to reconnect people to ancient technologies and back to themselves. We teach primitive skills, wilderness survival, modern survival, native awareness, wildlife tracking, earth living, shelter building, water collection & disinfection, friction fire making, bow making, flintknapping, wild edibles, hide tanning, scout skills, primitive hunting, earth philosophy, drum making, survival trapping, and more.
* [http://echoes-in-time.com Echoes-In-Time, Friends of the Society of Primitive Technology, Primitive Skills Workshops] in the Pacific Northwest.
* [http://www.purrfectlyherbal.com Purr-fectly Herbal] remedies produced in a primitive skills tradition.

Bibliography

* [http://www.wildfoodadventures.com/newsletter.html Wild Food Adventurer newsletter]