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What are Primitive Survival Techniques? Primitive Survival Techniques teaches the skills need to survive over the Long-Term.

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Primitive Survival Techniques are the skills needed to survive over the Long-Term (40 days plus). Its teachers emphasize living in harmony with nature and building the ability to craft tools, equipment, weapons, along with baskets, and even artwork out of the natural environment. Ancient hunting and gathering skills are also taught along with primitive shelter building and clothing manufacture.

Primitive Technology teaches long-term survival and wilderness living, although most skills are the skills needed to live in a specific environment, not necessarily survival skills at all. Many primitive technology skills require much more practice and most very are environment specific. Primitive Survival Techniques can take many years to master and the resources neccessary to master these skills are becoming increasingly rare.

Article by Bruce Zawalsky (5th November 2007)
Chief Instructor of the Boreal Wilderness Institute

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