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Take your wood fire, add some aluminium you scavenged from an aircraft, then add some rust.

Voila, 2500 C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite




This should be a top-level comment. There are probably other similarly low-tech ideas that could be used to bootstrap a civilization.




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