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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 <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/">Primitive Ways</a>. Other shows in this series are edition 141, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E141.html">First Skills</a>, edition 146, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E146.html">Starting with Fire</a>, edition 150, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E150.html">Ancient Firemaking</a>, and edition 155, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E155.html">Primal Grooming</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Primitive Ways website has <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/#anchor707849">many articles on primitive shelter construction</a>. Another source of information on primitive skills is the <a href="http://www.primitive.org/">Society of Primitive Technologies</a>.</p>
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<li style="list-style-image: url(http://www.wildebeat.net/icons/text.gif)"><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/scripts/E159.html">Transcript of edition 159</a></li></ul>
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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 <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/">Primitive Ways</a>. Other shows in this series are edition 141, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E141.html">First Skills</a>, edition 146, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E146.html">Starting with Fire</a>, edition 150, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E150.html">Ancient Firemaking</a>, and edition 155, <a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/shows/skills/E155.html">Primal Grooming</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Primitive Ways website has <a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/#anchor707849">many articles on primitive shelter construction</a>. Another source of information on primitive skills is the <a href="http://www.primitive.org/">Society of Primitive Technologies</a>.</p>
<ul><li style="list-style-image: url(http://www.wildebeat.net/icons/sound1.gif)"><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/audio/WildeBeat-E159.mp3" >Show number 159 [MP3 format; length 11:47; 2,831,519 bytes]</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://www.wildebeat.net/icons/sound1.gif)"><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/audio/WildeBeat-E159-stereo.mp3">Show number 159, extended high-quality stereo version [MP3 format; length 16:33; 15,904,670 bytes]</a></li>
<li style="list-style-image: url(http://www.wildebeat.net/icons/text.gif)"><a href="http://www.wildebeat.net/scripts/E159.html">Transcript of edition 159</a></li></ul>
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