Quote Originally Posted by Clistenes View Post
As for they forming a society because that's what people do... yes, they would form a society, but they could easily get stuck at Yanomami's technological and organizational level for centuries... once the first generation of inmates dies you are left with kids that have spent their whole lives without experiencing any tech more complex than a bone-tipped spear, a shelf bow or a vine net, or, if they are really lucky, a primitive loom or ceramic oven...

Yes, they have heard tales about planes and computeres, yes, they may have some theoretical knowkedge of basic sciences, but their firemost concerns are to hunt the next meal and to steal some wives from the nearest tribe...
A primitive loom is basically nothing - hand looms are stone age tech, and can be made pretty effortlessly out of a handful of sticks (though that does assume particular earth-life is there with them, namely trees or vines).

There's also the matter of conceptual technologies. At the very least they'll inherit a language structure from a much more complex society, and that matters. Writing is probably going to be there, concepts like the very existence of a standard system of measurements (not to mention the concepts embedded in that about what can be measured) are going to be very helpful, etc.