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They also have goddamn mammoths. In our world, elephant- and walrus ivory have been wanted luxury items that almost killed them to extinction. Why wouldn't Westerosian (or Essosi) nobles wouldn't have just the same demand for mammoth tusks that can reach a length of several meters?
And why on earth are they stuck on the stone age? They don't have the same excuse as American Indians, who were completely isolated from the old world and it's technological developments for tens of thousands of years. In climate like theirs the terrain should be full of swamps, which are excellent for extracting iron ore, all you have to do is know how to process it, and during the eight thousand years they've lived next to other Westerosians they should had learned it.
If this universe existed, the north-of-the-wall should be either an important colony of the south or a place full of wealthy, if somewhat peripheric, little chiefdoms with a thriving trade network. But no, they're depicted as primitive and have-nothing savages even more secluded from the rest of the world than North Korea or Bhutan.
What the fuck was that fat fuck thinking when writing them?
