Criticizing people about their hair styles
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Everyone alive right now must have ancestors who very literally did live & survive though the stone age and the ages before and after that. Wish I knew what my ancestors did to survive stone age, or better still if I could like watch them in a time lapse video. I guess I might have run away from stone lifting to go be a shepherd or something.
I know how to make rope, among other things, as an eagle scout, and I have some experience with atatl so, probably dying of fever at 14.
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Foraging for plants.
pretty useful skill, even now
hoardlng stones
With or without my current knowledge?
Because I'm pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be "ending the stone age".
Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.
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i think i could get pretty good at knapping stones into tools if i lived back then
Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.
Running away.
Clan rock stacker.
I'm good with plants, I'm observant, I like stargazing, I'm a good de-escalator. I'd probably an elder and end up doing some type of weather forecasting.
Georgia senator by the looks of the picture.
Hog cranking
Being the cave complex idiot.
Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.
You need weird rock? I got weird rock.
I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.
Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting
Uhhuh - what were you doing in my wife's cave there
Knapping.
Wait, I mean napping.
Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.
Dispensing elderly wisdom
Juggling. I'd find some nice stones or pinecones and teach everyone how to juggle and do some tricks. I also know an ancient game you can play with stones or knuckle bones. And I know some songs. And stories. People in the stone age had lots of free time to pass, so all of these would come in handy.
tfw you can't say "town bike" bc bicycles won't be invented for thousands of years
i think i'd make good bait though
the town (whatever the stone age word for flintstones car was)
The hard part about a simple bicycle isn't actually the bicycle, it's smooth road. If you don't have that you have to invent the mountainbike and that one's not even a 100 years old.
becoming a rome weirdo not for any of the usual reasons, but because someone's gotta build the damn roads
I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.