| Primitive Technology II |
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills from the Society of Primitive Technology by David Wescott (Editor), Society of Primitive Technology is part of a collection that teaches how ancient humans survived and strived using very simple methods for making bows, arrows, stone tools, houses and shelters and many other things. This is not exactly a survival manual, but the skills and things that you will learn by reading this book will certainly make the difference when it counts, and they will also give you a lot of primitive comfort in any of your trips and expeditions. Highly recommended; a great example of practical and useful anthropology and archaeology. And we would like to add an additional comment to this book, so that you may ponder it for a while: this book shows us that we humans are accustomed to day to associate more with better; we think that in order to be better we need more, and on the contrary, this book is evidence that primitive humans in our prehistory could be very well without the immense needs that we have now. We built for ourselves a gigantic consumerism society that is beginning to deceive us: we need lots and lots of paper to print things, and we use a lot of paper for things like wrapping very small products like a PCMCIA card in boxes as big as to place a pair of trekking shoes, and you know, this is not the only case. Indeed, Palaeolithic humans had a lot of limitations, as well as all those who lived in ancient civilisations, and we are not suggesting to go back in time; instead, we would like you and others to think for a while: we need - we must - cut the fat in our society and learn to be more efficient and ecologically sound. It is not only governments and industries who contribute to something as real and tangible now as the greenhouse effect and global warming; our shopping patterns, the way in which we drive our cars and run our daily lives has a lot to do as well. Books like this one not only teach us very interesting and useful survival techniques; they should also act as references to see how we are doing and where are we going. |
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