Ayla's days were busy

Ayla's days were busy filled with activity to ensure her survival. She was no longer the inexperienced, unknowledgeable child she had been at five, During the years with the clan, she had had to work hard, but she had learned in the process. She wove tight waterproof baskets to carry water and for cooking, and made herself a new collecting basket. She cured the skins of animals she hunted and made rabbit fur for linings for the insides of her foot coverings, leggings wrapped and tied with cord, and hand coverings made in the style of foot coverings - circular pieces that tied at the wrist in a pouch, but with slits cut in the palms for thumbs. She made tools from flint and collected grass to make her bed softer.
The meadow grasses supplied food, too. They were top heavy with seeds and grains. In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high bush cranberries, bear berries, hard small apples, starchy potato like roots, and edible ferns. She was pleased to find milk vetch, the non poisonous variety of the plant whose green pods held rows of small round legumes, and she even collected the tiny hard seeds from dried pig weed to grind and add to grains that she cooked into mush. Her environment supplied her needs.
From the book 'The clan of the cave bear' by Jean M. Auel