Articles on this Site by Storm

All material is copyright by Walter Muma

Visit Storm's website at www.stoneageskills.com 

• Fire
  • Materials
    • Various Friction Fire Woods and Their Relative Usefulness: Part 1, Part 2;  PDF
    • 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: Part 1,  Part 2, Part 3;  PDF
  • Bow Drill
    • A Friction Fire Inquiry: Bow Drill;  PDF
  • Hand Drill
    • A Friction Fire Inquiry: Hand Drill;  PDF
  • Fire Plow
    • One-armed Fireplow
  • Two Stones
    • Two-Rock Firestarting
  • Flint and Steel
    • Percussion Firestarting
• Pitch & Glue

  • Performance of Various Pacific Northwest Shell Types as Containers for Melting Pitch;  PDF

• Hunting
  • Making a Stone Age Sling;  PDF
• Food

  • Cooking With Nature

  • 300 (or so) Fungi That I Have Eaten
  • Exploring the Horizons of Mycophagy on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3;  PDF
  • Boiling With Hot Stones;  PDF
  • A Note on Eating Alder Catkins
  • Stropharia ambigua: Unquestionably One of My Favorite Fungi for the Table;  PDF
• Tools:
  • Construction and Efficacy of a Quartz Crystal-Tipped Hand Drill;  PDF
  • Bone Tools

  • Smoothing With Sand, Even-ing With Equisetum: Part 1, Part2;  PDF

  • Hafting a Stone Blade the Old-Fashioned Way: Part 1, Part 2;  PDF

• Stone:
  • Sculpting Soft Stone Using Stone Age Incision, Abrasion and Drilling Techniques;  PDF
• Lights
  • Stone Lamps
• Flintknapping
  • Misc notes
  • Obsidian Knives and Cutters
• Containers

  • How Not to Coal-Burn a Wooden Container;  PDF

  • Stone containers

• Clothing

  • A Eucalyptus Seed Button Quickie;  PDF

• Cordage

  • Processing Yucca Fibers;  PDF

• Wilderness Mind

  • Back to the Pleistocene! (To Save the Earth);  PDF

• Musical Instruments:

  • Musical Instruments

  • A Horsetail Pan Flute;  PDF

• Random Paleolithic Ponderings;  PDF

• A Suggested Human Technology Timeline (PDF only)

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. Visit his website at www.stoneageskills.com