from Binford (1979)
“Every time men go out for something they have space in the pack or on the sled on the way out. Good men always say ‘what can I carry that may help someone in the future.’ Maybe they decide that where they are going there is no firewood, so maybe they take out some extra. Maybe there is no good stone for using with Strike-a-Light, so maybe they take out some extra to leave out there in case somebody needs it later. In the old days, in my father’s time and before, fellows always carried out shiny stones for making tools and left them all over the place so if you needed them they would be around. Today men carry out axes, cooking cans, cups, knives, matches, bandages and medicine, and always in winter good food bones for burning, and sometimes stones for sleeping ones feet. I know where there are little secret places all the way from here to the Kobuk, to Barrow, to Fort Yukon, and to Barter Island. I could everything almost a man might need along the way by knowing what people in the past have left as insurance.”
