Articles by Storm

Visit Storm's website at www.stoneageskills.com

PLEASE NOTE
Many of these articles are now located solely on Storm's website, Stone Age Skills. The articles had been on both sites, but they have been removed from Wildwood Survival to avoid duplication between the two sites, and to fully honour Storm by leaving his website intact.

• Fire
  • Materials
    • Various Friction Fire Woods and Their Relative Usefulness
    • Relative Usefulness of Friction Fire Woods and Successful Wood Combinations for Various Friction Fire Techniques
  • Tinder Fungus
    • The Usefulness of Polypore Fungi in Primitive Fire Making
  • Bow Drill
    • A Friction Fire Inquiry: Bow Drill
  • Hand Drill
    • A Friction Fire Inquiry: Hand Drill
  • Fire Plow
    • One-armed Fireplow
  • Two Stones
    • Two-Rock Firestarting
  • Flint and Steel
    • Percussion Firestarting
  • Uses of Fire
• Pitch & Glue
  • Performance of Various Pacific Northwest Shell Types as Containers for Melting Pitch
• Hunting
  • Making a Stone Age Sling
• Food
  • Cooking With Nature
  • 300 (or so) Fungi That I Have Eaten
  • Exploring the Horizons of Mycophagy on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington XXX
  • Boiling With Hot Stones
  • A Note on Eating Alder Catkins
  • Stropharia ambigua: Unquestionably One of My Favorite Fungi for the Table
• Tools:
  • Construction and Efficacy of a Quartz Crystal-Tipped Hand Drill
  • Bone Tools
  • Smoothing With Sand, Even-ing With Equisetum
  • Hafting a Stone Blade the Old-Fashioned Way
• Stone:
  • Sculpting Soft Stone Using Stone Age Incision, Abrasion and Drilling Techniques
• Lights
  • Stone Lamps
• Flintknapping
  • Misc notes
  • Obsidian Knives and Cutters
• Containers
  • How Not to Coal-Burn a Wooden Container
  • Stone containers
• Clothing
  • A Eucalyptus Seed Button Quickie
• Cordage
  • Processing Yucca Fibers
• Wilderness Mind
  • Back to the Pleistocene! (To Save the Earth)
• Musical Instruments:
  • Musical Instruments
  • A Horsetail Pan Flute
• Random Paleolithic Ponderings
• A Suggested Human Technology Timeline

All material is copyright by Walter Muma.

Who is Storm? A brief Biography

Born in northern Maine in 1969, Storm built his own cabin, jumped out of airplanes, and worked every farm job imaginable before getting a degree in Ecology. Since then he has been teaching forest ecology, geology, watershed science, sensory - awareness, teambuilding and outdoor skills to folks of all ages. He last lived in and explored the high mountains of southern California. Storm passed away on February 22, 2008 after a short battle with cancer. Please visit his website www.stoneageskills.com