Born in Khyber in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border of Afghanistan, the second of five brothers, he had a ratherprimitive start.
However, the technologies to determine location, extract relevant information and deliver it via a wireless connection are only just starting to come together, and so far in ratherprimitive ways.
Watauga County Commissioner Perry Yates said the problem isn't Mr. Conway's primitive methods but rather his less primitive ones, like using an oven range in the outdoor kitchen.
The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.
"There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".