Interest in primitive skills has coincided with a resurgence in interest in natural and self-sufficient living techniques.

We just may trap that monkeyship, if I am clever enough at primitive skills.

The programs feature hands on experiences with a focus on primitive skills, field natural history, nature conservation and community leadership.

She could have told them why she didn't have their backwards, primitive skills.

"How dare they challenge me," Iron Mike once snarled, "with their primitive skills."

What has surprised our engineers, however, is the way this was done with the most rudimentary and truly primitive mechanical skills.

"His is a primitive skill possessed by very few sophisticated men," William Goldman said here in 1978.

Perhaps it was a primitive skill, the very essence of survival, or the reverse, an example of a modern mental finesse that had taken millions of years to achieve.

Today, primitive skill on the field has been replaced by brains on the bench and, as such, football is now on an intellectual par with chess and skittles.

In addition, Elliott is an expert on basket weaving and other primitive skills.