Comment by 999900000999
1 day ago
If you were in the woods( pick a spot) and had whatever food/medicines you needed could you build pottery from scratch.
Electricity is fine and all, but I imagine the basics of civilization could be replicated by a few good craftsmen(people)
Primitive Technology on YouTube does this repeatedly.
You make a hole or find a piece of slate for processing, you mine clay from a stream bed, and then you make your first pot as a tool for moving water, the second pot for making food, and before or after the second pot you make clay bricks to build a kiln to high fire other things more efficiently - less fuel and more multitasking of other tasks.
Why don't contestants on "Alone" do this?
This question is substantially why I stopped watching that show.
I think at least a few of them may have trouble locating pure clay where they are dropped but not all of them, every season, for years.
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