Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DC on April 10, 2017, 12:27:56 pm
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This is another one I'm having trouble understanding. Back when all we had for bowls was a hollowed out stump, how did we make decent hide/sinew glue? I know we used hot rocks but again, logistics. If you are moving hot rocks back and forth between the fire and the "pot" for 4-5 hours how do you keep the glue clean? How do you end up with any glue at all when you take a bit back to the fire on the cooled off rocks every trip? Has anyone ever tried this?
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Some primitives used skin pouches or bags, suspended over a fire to cook in. The liquid in the bag kept it from burning through. These bags only lasted a limited time but plenty enough for a few batches of glue.
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Seems like from what i have been reading in the various glue threads, it doesn't have to be all that hot to reduce skin to glue.
A warm rock with a depression in it like a lamp seems possible.
Has anyone has read of any accounts of primitive glue making methods, even after pottery was invented?
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Experimental archaeology sounds like a whole lot of fun. You get paid to figure this kind of stuff out :D
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Have you Googled "primitive glue making" or "types of primitive glue"
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Welk and conch shells were used down here for bowls and ladles.
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Have you Googled "primitive glue making" or "types of primitive glue"
I have now :D They are mostly pitch glue or if they are hide glue they start with"use an old pot"
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I have picked p enough fire blackened pottery shards while artifact hunting to realize primitive man had no shortage of pots to put over a fire.
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Glue was made sometimes by chewing the hide or bladder of fish then spitting it into a bowl
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Dont forget,that some Rock was formed into natural bowls as well and were utilized.