Your Ancestors 1000 Years Ago Used A Lot Of Tricks You Never Thought Of .
Get Bacteria and Fungus Working For You, Instead Of Against YouSurprising amount of sophistication back even 5,000 years. Visiting A village excavated from 5,000 years back, they had found several vegetable steamers... which we saw in the museum.
To dry food and make pemmican type fat recombined, (a balanced food you could eat nothing else and survive,) needed no equipment to make.
Easiest way, (small animals used to be all over the countryside) to catch them is take an animal skin and cut in a circle around and around to make as long a leather rope (skin) as you need
Or if today , you can use wire or rope, you make small six inch to one foot size circle lassos,. These are made into what is called snares. You essentially set these out this evening in trails where you can see little animals travel on. Hang the loops on twigs, weed and grass etc so an animal walks through it will catch and choke around his neck etc. You tie the other end. Get good at this put out ten tonight, come back in the morning and you will have caught two or three small animals in your snares. ( a learned skill)
Even in the dead of winter small animals, pheasants, large animals etc come out after a storm.
Does this give you an idea what your ancestors ate for thousands of years, food that you were designed to handle?
keep in mind most of what they ate was eaten raw or at least much more then you do. Also keep in mind your version of much of this will be cooked etc. whereas nearly all of their food had retain enzymes or fermented food added much additional.
Hope this gives you a better understanding of why your inherited model body was not made for most of what you are putting in it..
Fermented food in contrast it would seem needed clay pots etc and would be hard to transport, but they may have used animal stomachs etc as the Indians did for storing Pemmican.
Dried food retained the original enzymes, but nothing extra for anything short.
Fermented food in contrast seems to be an
enzyme factory making extra enzymes for food that has become dead food through cooking etc.
We will be doing a site on "How To Make Saur Kraut.com. The ideal temperature for this seems to be around 65 degrees and the shortest is about a week and traditional several months.
Your ancestors had this all down to an art, and had many other pickling, and processes such as the Indians using lye, (caustic substance made from ashes) to treat corn to be used for human consumption. Tribe members that did that (and some still do) were called 'lyers.'
Fermenting, usually means a specified bacteria, turns starch in the food into an acid, which then keeps other bacteria from
rotting or decomposing it. Thus the food remains intact from bacteria invasions and lasts indefinitely. Over long term other processes occur and even makes or improves levels or availability of new and enhanced nutrients grown within and from the food fermented. The fermentation has grown a new substance from what was. Some of this has now been determined to be anti cancerous.
Example, women that ate sauerkraut, 4 times a week, a University Of New Mexico study found had 73% less breast cancer.
Thus these fermented foods were not necessarily a storage method as much as a method of handling or modifying the food to a status that they found"worked."
Becoming aware those using it survived and those not using it came down with illnesses and often died.
Example of this, Asians that drank mostly tea and little water, boiled their tea. Those that drank water from villages etc often died of typhoid. It soon became apparent tea drinkers survived and the non tea drinkers were dying off. Soon you have a population of survivors that are tea drinkers.
It seems to have worked the same way with indigenous societies, they became automatically, users of the fermented food on a regular basis, those that did had a survival advantage and over thousands of years it tended to make users out of the population. You, as a member of the tribe etc like it because it was handed down as part of healthful"surviving".
Beer, wine etc are fermented food turned into a drink. Europeans have started over the last few thousand years to develop some tolerance to alcohol, Asians do not.
Europeans that drank beer etc did not die as much from polluted water, so became
part of survival, much as tea did for the Asians.
Now lets discuss man and how he found food, in the winter when he had to move on from advance storage of fermented and dried food etc.
Fish....were much more plentiful in streams and lakes then now. They learned were fish frequented in quantity and speared them with sharp pointed sticks. You can make a torch and go out in the lake, stream etc with a torch (light) (illegal now)and attract fish to the surface readily spearable. Get all the fish you need. You can do this in open water area in winter were there are falls etc and do not freeze up.
During the depression, for food, growing up, an Indian friend made a fish trap for my dad (for a buck or two) out of willow branches, about the size of a small garbage can. We put a rope on it, added some rotten meat or smelly substance, in the trap, threw it in the Missouri and came back in a couple of days. Pull it in and there would always be a variety of fish in it. Take home what we needed for food and leave the rest. (stay alive) come back when you need some more, will still be there, plus a few more.
Too many, take extras home and feed them to the chickens.
Aborigines in Australia I learned had an even simpler method. They would align stones in a creek bed so the water could go through but not fish. They would be diverted off to one side where they made a trap arrangement out of stones the same way.
Then the went up stream a mile or two and raise a ruckus, threw rocks in the stream etc. The fish panicking, fled down stream into the trap. They would take a few home for supper and leave the rest in the trap for later use as needed.
Need more, come back later and get some additional meals of fresh fish. Equipment or bait needed zero.
Your ancestors learned a lot of tricks like this including the torch trick after cutting a hole in the ice.
The Aborigines (the Australian equivalent of the native American Indian. told me how to get all the birds, ducks, quail etc you needed for lunch.
Find a flock sitting on the ground, carry a big wood stick about as heavy as and the size of an axe handle. Sneak up close as you can, when they spook and fly up in panic from seeing you, stand up and throw the stick whirling right into the middle of the flock flying up. He said you almost always kill two or three, Aim or skill needed zero.
Next big animals. In the north it would be Deer or Moose, most likely. Wolves and Mountain lions etc constantly make kills and leave part of the body. If still there and fresh kill, you may be able to run them off with Sharp sticks, and take some part for the carcass home. (spears) if not wait untill they are done and then take the large bones home they were unable to crack.
Take rocks, bust up the bones, use sharp sticks and remove the bone marrow. This is very nutritious and in dead winter is often the only part of the animal that has any of the essential fat you need in late winter, when normal fat animals have lost all of their fat. You can live on bone marrow alone.
Next we will take up small animals, or large animals. This is something most people totally misunderstand. Man can outlast a horse, a deer, a raccoon, or any animal in distance ability. They may be faster but man outlasts them. Get them in deep snow and he can track them easily and if advanced at all makes himself crude snow shoes and they tire much faster then he. Most small animals can last running from you less then 15 minutes, track and follow them and they fall over from exhaustion. You pick them or bash em with a rock etc.
You can pursue an animal non stop over 24 hours. You can out last deer, and even a horse several times. Which are in the hours range. Canadian Intuits, for example know that they can get all the rabbits tracked down in the snow they want to eat over the winter. (no weapons needed, out last them tracking them.)(use rock) However, they know you must have essential fat and the late winter rabbits wont have any fat on them, and you wont make it through the winter, they call it dying of Rabbit Fever.
They know that an old moose has accumulated a fat area in his neck he does not loose in the winter. ( young moose wont have this) so they hunt and kill an old moose and divide up the fat among all tribe members.. who then all make it through the winter.
