It's one thing to learn to hunt from zero. It's another thing to do it with tools and techniques that had been handed down for thousands of years. How do you ma

It's one thing to learn to hunt from zero. It's another thing to do it with tools and techniques that had been handed down for thousands of years. How do you make a spear from scratch, using only raw materials found in nature, that's effective enough to bring down a creature the size of a mammoth? You have to select the right kind of wood with the right character, harden it with fire correctly, find the right kind of flint and chip it just so to make a head, find the right animal sinews and preserve them the right way to tie the head to the spear, learn to strike with it so it hits vulnerable spots and doesn't break, because it'll take you days or weeks to make another... I knew a guy once who did his PhD work on chipping flint, reproducing the techniques used by various Stone Age people. He loved chipping flint and making tools. They were sharp, and dangerous, and fragile, and took hours or days to make (not counting the failures). He spent years studying and refining his technique. Making a high-quality spear, good enough to kill mammoths effectively? That takes years to perfect. It's an intellectual challenge on par with writing software, based on tradition and teaching akin to our school system. It's not easy or trivial! It's not primitive, at least not in the demeaning way it's being expressed here. Those "primitives" were every bit as smart as you, every bit as hardworking, and their techniques on par with ours in terms of rigor and effort. What they didn't have was tens of thousands of years of additional development, so they had to know everything about survival. They didn't get their mammoth wrapped in plastic.