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Stone Age Project


By invitation only

Location to be decided

Free (you must have completed at least the Full Spring Immersion 2025 to be eligible and have the required gear list )

Here it is, the Stone Age Project 2025

Have you dreamed of being part of a clan that you know and trust, living with just the things you have made with your own hands from raw natural materials, heading off into the wilderness and seeing what it feels like to be completely immersed?

Gear list of required items

Bedding: 

  • Buffalo or fur sleeping robe/ hand felted blanket

  • skin sleeping pad

  • Bark tan skin

Clothing: 

  • Deerskin long sleeved outer garment

  • Deerskin short sleeved under garment

  • Deerskin long legged lower garment (leggings combo or pants)

  • High top moccasins

  • Fur or wool felt vest

  • Fur or wool felt hat

Optional:

  • Fur or wool boots

  • Sandals

  • Gloves or mittens

  • Neck warmer

Containers: 

  • Skin backpack or pack basket

  • Single or double clay cook pot 

  • Water canteen (bladder, gourd etc)

  • Skin or bark food bags or baskets

  • Gathering basket

  • Tool container

  • Fat container

  • Eating bowl

Tools:      

  • Stone knife

  • Digging stick

  • Quick blades

  • Glues and bindings (hide glue, pitch glue, rawhide, plant fibre cordage etc)

  • Buckskin scraps

  • Bone repair tools awl, needle etc

  • Fat lamp

  • Friction/ percussion Fire kits

  • Fishing kit 

  • Basic knapping kit

Weapons (optional):

Hunting equipment (bow and arrows/atl-atl and darts 

(accoutrements; strings, guards, tabs, quiver etc)

Foods:

  • Dried wild meat and/or fish  2.5 kg per adult

  • Rendered food grade wild fat 2 Liters per adult 

  • (can be combined as pemmican)

  • Dried wild fruits or berries 1 kg per person

Group gear

  • Lithic cores obsidian/ chert or other durable material

  • Stone axe

  • Skin tarp or mats

  • Fish trap/net

  • Food drying trays/ winnowing basket

    Misc.(optional)

  • Menstrual pads 

  • instruments: drums, flutes etc

Optional

  • Journals and writing implements

  • Camera (preferably designated talented photographer and camera to share)

  • Location topography maps

  • Glasses

  • Medications

Modern equipment for trial period (optional)

  • Canvas tarp or tent

  • Headlamp

  • Steel or iron cooking pot

  • Steel knife and tools

  • Extra clothes or bedding (discreet colors and natural materials)

  • Sewing needles

  • Scissors

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