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Wild Shelters

Wild Shelters

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DATE : Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:00:00 PST
Entered in Database : 2008-10-10 01:18:36
length : 2831519
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This skills program presents skills for building primitive shelters. This is the fifth in a series featuring primitive technologies experts from Primitive Ways. Other shows in this series are edition 141, First Skills, edition 146, Starting with Fire, edition 150, Ancient Firemaking, and edition 155, Primal Grooming.

Using primitive tools and natural materials, naturalist Norm Kidder explains how to choose a sheltered location, demonstrates how to cut wood with a rock, and describes how to build a basic lean-to structure.

The Primitive Ways website has many articles on primitive shelter construction. Another source of information on primitive skills is the Society of Primitive Technologies.

• Show number 159 [MP3 format; length 11:47; 2,831,519 bytes]
• Show number 159, extended high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 16:33; 15,904,670 bytes]
• Transcript of edition 159

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