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Guide to Paleo Artifacts

Use this book as a reference guide to identify old stone artifacts. Well illustrated.

90 pages. Soft cover. By R. M. Gramly.

$19.95

 

The Art of Flint Knapping

Covers percussion and pressure flaking. A complete guide covering basics, tools and raw materials.

Contains 70 photos and 100 drawings on 76 pages. Large format. By D.C. Waldorf.

$14.95

 

       
The Complete Book of Tanning Skins and Furs

The most comprehensive do-it-yourself tanning book around. From making tools and equipment to recipes for tanning and pickling solutions.

 197 pages. Hardcover. By James Churchill.

$19.95

 

   
       

These Booklets run from 32 to 48 pages and are loaded with photos. Each was written to enable the person who had no knowledge of the particular skill to do it.

Note that each subject is labeled "Primitive". Though some are illustrated using steel tools, the overall collection is designed to teach you how to make it using only the tools available in nature.

Brain Tan Buckskin

Brain Tan Buckskin - The simplest to understand, workable "how-to" on this subject available. We also include a chapter on how to obtain, prepare and sew with sinew.

$4.50

 

       

Primitive Fire and Cordage

Primitive Fire & Cordage - How to rub two sticks together to make fire and how to find, prepare and make string from various natural fibers.

$4.50

 

Makin' Meat-1, The Sinew Backed Bow and Arrow

Makin' Meat-1, the sinew backed bow and arrow - primitive bow and arrow making from natural materials - bow illustrated is Plains Indian style.

$4.50

       

Makin' Meat-2, Traps and Subsistence Gathering

Makin' Meat-2, traps and subsistence gathering - basic food gathering techniques, simple traps. Description of the atlatl.

$4.50

 

Primitive Wilderness Cooking Methods

Primitive Wilderness Cooking Methods - Broiling, boiling, frying, baking - campfire cooking without pots and pans.

$4.50

       

Deer from Field to Freezer

Deer from Field to Freezer - The care of deer sized game (tho put together the same as a mouse). Field dress, skin, quarter, cut-up - illustrated here using only stone blades.

$4.50

 

Containers-1 - Baskets, Bags and Other Assortments

Containers-1 - Baskets, bags and other assortments. It's hard to gather without something in which to carry your stuff.

$4.50

       

Containers-2 - Primitive Pottery

Containers-2 - primitive pottery - Dig the clay, clean it, build a pot and fire it. Use it to cook with over an open fire.

$4.50

 

Primitive Pottery

Primitive Tools - Making and using them. Stone, bone, wood and antler. An excellent primer on basic flintknapping.

$4.50

       

Semi-permanent Shelters

Semi-permanent Shelters - All with intregal fires that shed water as well as wind - from basic survival to comples houses. The best explanation of primitive shelter building there is.

$4.50

 

   
       
 

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