To further convince anyone reading this: He has videos on making huts, axes, drills, baskets, and more, all completely from scratch and all with (to my taste, at least) extremely good, no wasted time editing.
Well worth your hour to watch them all.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638073
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/printthread.php?t=638073...
To get a civilization that could support even a modest town large enough to support small mining operations and general trade you need the most important technology we've spent the past 10.000-40.000 years developing and which I don't see any technological shortcut to: The potato, banana, the chicken, the cow, etc. Superfoods, without which a civilization won't get very far and which will definitely not just exist on a planet that's never seen human cultivation.
(There's a fun survivorman episode where he gets dropped in a jungle, and after a day or two of hardship he stumbles upon an abandoned farm, instantly the whole 'surviving' aspect is gone and the rest of the episode is about him trying to live comfortably (i.e. not being eaten by ants at night), the difference between a bleeding edge modern mango and sucking on a wild berry is stark (the episode is called "Grenada Jungle"))
ps: random collision, I was just watching this http://typotalks.com/berlin/2012/speakers/single-speaker/?ti... when I realized it's similar to your vanished survivor mindset.
He also gave a Google talk a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRV8ccyEE0
ps: his fire starting example reminded me of this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEl-Y1NvBVI (no supermarket involved though)