Bushcraft is about wilderness survival on the most practical level. But at its core, bushcraft is about more than just staying alive. It’s the art of thriving in the woods with primitive tools and ...

Learn how to build a primitive tool to extract groundwater using only natural materials. This essential survival skill can ...

I shaped a basalt adze with primitive tools and used it to cut trees. The durable tool allowed me to fell and shape timber ...

Excerpted from Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man, Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. We were standing in a circle on a beach of smooth ...

About 1.4 million years ago the ancestors of modern man constructed what is believed to be the first-ever tool: the hand axe. And now designers of reimagined what those primitive tools might be like ...

The discovery of stone axes in the same sediment layer as cruder tools indicates that hominins with differing tool-making technologies may have coexisted. The axes, found in Kenya by Christopher Lepre ...

ARLEE — When Buck Hitswithastick was in third or fourth grade, he killed a gopher with a bow he made. Hitswithastick, Bitterroot Salish, was proud of himself. He skinned the animal, like he saw his ...

The use of stone tools by our ancient ancestors was, until now, thought to have originated with the Homo genus around 2.6 million years ago. But the discovery of a collection of implements in Kenya, ...