 The oldest form of attachment was a masonry nail. They're made out of hardened steel. You've got to use a special hammer for it. You don't use your framing hammer on it. You've got to use like a ball-peen hammer or something that's designed to strike hardened metal, and you drive it through whatever you're trying to nail to the concrete or whatever with just pure brute force and violence of action and drive them in so hard and so fast that the concrete actually moves out of the way to let the nail in.