I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.
Dying, mostly.
Dying
I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.
Yeah I typed my comment then scrolled and realized I’m extremely unoriginal:)
Cavemen would have just rolled their eyes when people died back then. Like, pffft, everybody does that.
Navigation and being the first to try a cool looking mushroom and findout how dead I get.
why navigation?
I just have a really good sense of direction and memory of places and paths.
Usually if I went somewhere even only once, even a year later I can recall how to get there again
oh that’s decent
*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*
Just by knowing how to wash my hands, medicine. Up until 20th century.
Wash the wound with soapy water, apply cloth that has been boiled. Yeah that should have a better survival rate than most of human history.
Soap is animal fat and what in a survival situation?
Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy
What if there’s no leech wood?
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Yep, IIRC hardwood is what you want to be using to make the lye
I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.
Time travel, evidently.
Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.
Or brain surgery.
Hey, maybe you’ll be the most successful neolithic brain surgeon and only kill half your patients
You’d be the shaman putting holes into heads to cure headaches
I think excel would be good software for managing hunter rotations, supplies and stone inventory.
Oh! I’m actually somewhat decent with some useful things. I got sent to a wilderness school for fuck up kids when I was a teen. So I know how to, and have applied a lot of survival stuff.
I know how to effectively make a somewhat permanent shelter. I can make and use a bow drill to make fire, and along the same principal but with much more effort and time I could make fire with hand drill or fire plough techniques. I know how to make basic traps. I can make cordage, and have very, very very basic tracking skills. I know some edible and toxic plants in my area (not exhaustive by any means). I know how to clean and dress game. There’s a lot of other stuff, but those popped into my head immediately.
It’s been a long time since I’ve done all this, but the knowledge and know-how is all there. I’d actually be a decent person to have around!
That’s a pretty excellent school to go to, hell I wish I had that level of training
Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?
Dogs seem to like me so maybe I’d be one of the first to domesticate dogs. I’d probably just live with dogs.
Counting and therefore distributing spoils fairly. I would become a well-loved chief and would probably get laid more than I currently do, although the hairy partners may not be of my liking.
eh beauty is relative and you’d get used to it. It sounds like you’d be the village sandwich maker, and yes I can imagine that being a very prestigious position
I wouldn’t survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe I’d create tools or something. Love tinkering.
This, anyone with strong glasses would be disabled in the stone age, lol. Needed some surgery before? You’d be dead. Ever broke a bone? Likely dead.
I went through my whole (living) family tree once and I’m pretty sure none of us would have survived, including me.
Yeah loooooots of people wouldn’t survive
