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

Computers! Shit.

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

Dying, mostly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

oh that's decent

*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Probably dying at age <1.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

Time travel, evidently.

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

Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?

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

That's a supermodel compared to her.

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

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

Whittling. Drawing.

Meditation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had shovels in the stone age.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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, if 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] 3 points 1 month ago
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