{"id":563,"date":"2010-02-22T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/02\/primitive-technology-handbook.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T22:34:05","slug":"primitive-technology-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/02\/primitive-technology-handbook.html","title":{"rendered":"Primitive Technology Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/primitive-technology-handbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/primitive-technology-handbook.jpg\" alt=\"primitive technology handbook\" width=\"230\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitiveways.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Primitive Ways<\/a> makes use of the internet to teach us the lost knowledge of our Stone Age ancestors: making fire, tools, weapons, cooking utensils, musical instruments, shelters, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is that useful in the 21st century, but the site contains a wealth of information and many of the diy-projects sure look like fun. Moreover, they also combine traditional skills with modern materials, like in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelter-systems.com\/kayak.html\" target=\"_blank\">four-hour kayak<\/a>. Some articles are extremely short, but very useful &#8211; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitiveways.com\/pt-thimble.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inuit Thimble<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Primitive Ways is also available as a book or a dvd, but all information is freely accessible on the website. Articles also appeared in the &#8220;Bulletin of Primitive Technology&#8221;, a print magazine from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitive.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Society of Primitive Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another good resource is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0879059117?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lowtemagaz-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0879059117\">Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mzvhjjldbizowkgredcm\" style=\"border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lowtemagaz-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0879059117\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>&#8220;, available on Amazon. Update: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/05\/the-origins-of-invention-industry-among-primitive-peoples.html\">The origins of invention: a study of industry among primitive peoples<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primitive Ways makes use of the internet to teach us the lost knowledge of our Stone Age ancestors: making fire, tools, weapons, cooking utensils, musical instruments, shelters, and much more. Not everything is that useful in the 21st century, but the site contains a wealth of information and many of the diy-projects sure look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,12,129,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}