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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

Soap is super important, as for math - I'm guessing it's going to need to be geometry based before they can grok irrational numbers, or hell, symbolic notation in general

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Our ancestors measured time to keep track of the breeding seasons of their prey as to not exterminate the local populations... so most likely for that

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Or just to better understand how and where to catch them. Don't forget we hunted all kinds of things to extinction anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Dying from allergies & asthma.

While still living, the tribe could deploy me as an animal detector: place me at the front of hunting parties, and the moment I start sneezing & wheezing, they know they've got prey nearby.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I would excel in the use of the internet and computers as I would be the only one with knowledge about it. I would also be the only one who knows how to drive a car.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Computers! Shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Dying, mostly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Navigation and being the first to try a cool looking mushroom and findout how dead I get.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

oh that's decent

*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I think excel would be good software for managing hunter rotations, supplies and stone inventory.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

That's a pretty excellent school to go to, hell I wish I had that level of training

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Probably dying at age <1.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

You'd be a lot taller and probably also faster (maybe not stronger). You'd become a god-king in no time. Or be killed as a monster.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Time travel, evidently.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

That's a supermodel compared to her.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.

Whittling. Drawing.

Meditation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We had shovels in the stone age.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Depends what you mean by shovel. Little wooden scoops/spades might have been a thing, although hands will work nearly as well on soft substances. For bigger jobs the digging stick was the tool of choice, and then baskets to move the rubble or economic load (ocher, tubers) out.

I'm guessing multi-piece wooden shovels, of they were ever commonly used, had to wait for some level of civilisation. That's a very difficult thing to make with no proper tools, and not trivial even with. Ditto for bone, and nothing else available in nature is strong and rigid enough under bending.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Dogs seem to like me so maybe I'd be one of the first to domesticate dogs. I'd probably just live with dogs.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Iโ€™m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so Iโ€™d probably just die.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

While I believe you, dear nutsack, take a minute and think about the whole process of sucking dick before showers were a thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

They were just used to it. Even today, bathing frequency is culturally dependent.

When old love poetry talks about the musk of a lover, I do wonder at what range it was noticeable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

you do what you've got to do

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