Hunting in the Human Way: Tracking and Reading Sign

Jan 26, 2013
While it is obvious that an understanding of tracking and reading sign is absolutely crucial to understanding hunting, it is also crucial to understanding the environment whether one hunts or not - indeed whether one is a either hunter or a gatherer. If you cannot read sign you are in essence environmentally illiterate. And like all forms of illiteracy, it is a barrier to knowledge and information.
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Hunting in the Human Way: With dogs

Jan 24, 2013
Hunting in the human way has many unique features that you won't find anywhere else in nature and one of the most fascinating is hunting with dogs. One of the ways that we can measure this is from the fact that very few people have chosen to keep and maintain other animals once they were no longer useful in the modern urban world.
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Hunting in the Human Way: Falconry

Jan 24, 2013
There is nothing in the natural world that can be compared to the ancient art of falconry, especially when it's done with a complete cast of characters. These characters are, of course, the falcon and the human and horses and dogs.
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Hunting in the human way: Killing

Jan 23, 2013
Most people today come from a modern urban culture and can no longer make a kill nor can they walk barefoot across the desert or drink the water from the rivers and streams that are there. We cannot make a kill due to mental blocks that has developed in the last generation or two.
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Hunting in the Human Way: The Shaman and Hunting Magic

Jan 23, 2013
Today most of us would think that a discussion on shamanism and hunting magic to be purely academic. However I think that a proper understanding of ancient shamanism and hunting magic is necessary to understand our modern environmental movement and the philosophies that exist within it. For instance many people might think that the greatest difference between the ancient hunters and modern hunters are in the weapons they carry. However, in the end, whether the hunter is using a spear or a high-powered rifle, a kill is a kill, nothing more nothing less.
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The Campfire

Sep 29, 2012
The campfire is one of the things that truly define humanity and one could even say that we really weren't really humans until we had fire. And it is interesting to note that many campfire traditions that were known to our ancestors are still practiced and are still relevant in the lives of many people today.
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Time Wave

Sep 19, 2012
Through the centuries, mankind has often speculated on what is the true nature of time and how it works and we currently have a scientific understanding of time, that is sometimes referred to as space-time. We also have a cultural idea of time that allows for all kinds of things such as time travel and so on.
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