Nehawka Primitive Skills

In a previous post I mentioned that the Mescalaro Apache of southwestern US and northern Mexico used the bow and drill fire making method, ...

When I first started demonstrating primitive skills at historical events, I tried to tie the technics to local history....what was practiced...

Hitting the rock pile, I was able to find a nice spall of Keokuk Burlington chert, and knapped a 5-inch spearhead.  This piece has a couple...

(Pictured are jersalem artichokes dug with digging stick)                           One of the common items in the tool kit of early cultur...

I've made a number of axes before and  it can be time and labor intensive.  Some of the first axes would have probably been angular s...

One of the rare blade forms found in the south central US (Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas) is the corner tang knife.  Basically...