Day 15: How to make a jungle tripod…
What is Primitive really: Primitive what really is it? Most people in our modern-day shun and look down on people who live primitively. The irony is this, if we were left in their environment without technology we would be the children, we would be the ones needing help, we would be the primitive. Primitive technology just means First Technology, it doesn't mean less than technology. Even going back only 10,000 years the people that lived then, were genetically exactly the same as the people that live now. The only difference being access to information. In reality Society has sadly forgotten more than it currently knows. The more I look into archaeological reconstruction, and the more I learn about primitive technology, the more I realize how brilliant it actually was. While spending time in the Columbian jungle I learned really quickly the things that I thought I knew and the things that I did not know. I was there with people who lived in the jungle that could run circles around me without shoes, could navigate without a compass, could eat without fire, cook without a lighter drink without risk of sickness and just live in that environment without any external technology. I was truly the helpless child in their environment. How is all of this relevant to survival? well if you play the what if game long enough you eventually realize that you cannot function without tools unless you use what already exists in the environment that you're in. The only way you can do that is to study techniques of the people who lived there before you and replicate them. Remember primitive technology being First Technology might be the ultimate survival technology. If it's good enough for your ancestors it’s good enough for you.
