Is it possible to survive w/o modern items?

[hunter63]

Ahhhhh, shot for trespassing .....while attempting to survive with high cost survival copper ax......
Things don't change much in 5000 years.

[kyratshooter]

At least he did not have to deal with the internet and 5000 threads on "What is the best survival axe?" and endless gripes about the high cost of shipping flint.

[LowKey]

http://www.iceman.it/en/how-oetzi-died
Not only did they not take his possessions, they also removed the arrow shaft (possible identification?)
The arrow head was still embedded though.

ROTTW. Crash, that made me laugh.

[hunter63]

http://www.iceman.it/en/how-oetzi-died
Not only did they not take his possessions, they also removed the arrow shaft (possible identification?)
The arrow head was still embedded though.

ROTTW. Crash, that made me laugh.

A good arrow shaft is hard to make.......I would have pulled it out too.

[crashdive123]

Glad to oblige. Shows every evening with a matinee on Wednesdays.

[Batch]

I thought Ishi's people had all died off when he stumbled out of the woods.

[randyt]

see post #16

[hunter63]

I thought Ishi's people had all died off when he stumbled out of the woods.

Point is that he was having a bad time by himself....as would most people.

Was a good segment on him on Mysteries at the Museum.
http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/m...-from-the-wild

Turned out there was some tribe members in a different area...that he didn't know about....

[TXyakr]

There are still small groups of people living fairly health lives with very primitive tools today. In low land area most don't live very long due to all the viruses and bacteria in topical/humid regions but in dry mountain climates some live well into their 90's and beyond the average age can be over 50 or even into the 70's, like the "Hunzas" of the Himalayas, also some in Andes of South America and American SW who keep to themselves.

For those who take the historical record that Abraham and Moses passed down to their descendants as accurate one of the son's of Adam (the first recorded Human) Cain had a descendant a few generations later who was "An instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron" Genesis 4:22 I assume this was used for tools not just jewelry. Ancient artifacts found near Stonehenge England show that the so called "Stone Age" man had skills to make almost microscopic jewelry and complex tools from a wide variety of metals. Most of that old "Stone Age" "history" in old history books is just ignorant nonsense. People may have used caves for temporary shelter while on hunting trips or for burials but not permanent living quarters. If you ever spent much time in a cave you will understand why. Academic fools who wrote those old dusty books evidently never went camping, thus they wrote a lot of BS. Even as a kid I could smell nonsense and discounted most of it because I had lived with the so called "stone age" people and knew better.