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Plant has authored the 192 page, illustrated, hardcover book Primitive Technology: A survivalist's guide to building tools, shelters, and more in the wild (ISBN 9781984823670), published by Clarkson Potter on 29 October 2019. The book is "a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild" containing "50 ...
An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus: the Nepohualtzintzin. Abacus – The Aztec and Maya of Mesoamerica performed arithmetic operations using an abacus. It served as a more accurate and faster alternative to a written solution or relying on memory.
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The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used in the manufacture of implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted roughly 2.5 million years, from the time of early hominids to Homo sapiens in the later Pleistocene era, and largely ended between 6000 and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking.
Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology. Tudge, Colin. (1997). The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impact. Touchstone. Wescott, David. (2001). Primitive Technology:A Book of Earth Skills. Wescott, David. (2001). Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skill - From the Society of Primitive Technology ...
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It is distinct from uses of primitive technology without any concern for archaeological or historical study. Living history and historical reenactment , which are generally undertaken as hobbies, are non-archaeological counterparts of this academic discipline.
However, McPherson raises two disturbing points: The aliens more than likely consider humans to be negligible due to their primitive technology, hence the violent placing of the devices in the earth as recounted by Albarn 600 years ago; and also that humans at least deactivate weapons before storing them, but because the aliens did not attempt ...