Settling for the rules

This is what the game looks like

 We have this game we used to play that we recently unearthed to share with Marc's youngest daughter and her husband.
  It's one of the Catan series, called The Settlers of the Stone Age, that operates much like the other Catan games except for resources you trade bone, meat, flint and hide instead of food, fuel and coal as you set up camp from here to there.
 We remember it as fun and don't know why it got pushed to the back of the closet except that we like a lot of games so we're always trying out something new.
 So it was with a shock that we prepared to play this game last Sunday night and found the rules missing.

Here's the game board

 We had the gameboard and the cards and the little guys with tribal faces but no rules. Marc and I looked at each other wondering if we could guess our way through.

 No way particularly since Marc is a stickler for the rules.
 We decided to try the wonderful resources available on the Internet and see if we could buy, beg or borrow a copy.
 I wrote to Mayfair Games where the Klaus Teuber games are made and sold.
  They very nicely told me the Stone Age game was made in cooperation with another company that hadn't granted them access to the rules PDF file.

These we have

  Really? In today's world of sharing and electronics?
  Marc decided to write to Kosmos in Germany and get the truth out of them.
  Here's their reply: (I'm not sure they can help us.)

Date: 2012/9/26
Subject: Ihre Serviceanfrage wurde von Volkan Tercan zur Bearbeitung unter der Nummer angelegt

Sehr geehrte(r) Marc Haddock ,

vielen Dank für Ihre Mail und Ihr Interesse an den Kosmos
Experimentierkästen und Spielen.

Ihre Anfrage "Settlers of the Stone Age instructions in English" ist bei
uns, unter der im Betreff angegebenen Service-Nummer, eingegangen. Bitte
beziehen Sie sich bei allen weiteren Anfragen auf diese Nummer.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Volkan Tercan


Anybody out there know what they said? We'd love to know.