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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

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€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour 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€“] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour 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€“] PawsAndProgress@hexbear.net 2 points 4 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€“] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Dying, mostly.

[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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€“] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago

Computers! Shit.

[โ€“] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago

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

[โ€“] klep@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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€“] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Probably dying at age <1.

[โ€“] davidagain@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Time travel, evidently.

[โ€“] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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€“] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?

[โ€“] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 22 hours ago

That's a supermodel compared to her.

[โ€“] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

It always bugs me how cavemen wheels aren't ever depicted with a matching axle. That's the hard and novel part! I'm glad this guy found an alternative for it.

[โ€“] kruddman@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours 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.

[โ€“] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago
[โ€“] rainrain@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

Whittling. Drawing.

Meditation.

[โ€“] Robbity@lemm.ee 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] rainrain@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We had shovels in the stone age.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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€“] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Excel, it wouldn't be useful but I'd still be great at it.

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[โ€“] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

Starvation.

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
I can find north without a compass, day and night.
I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.

I think I'd do reasonably well.
Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I'm in the wild.

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[โ€“] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.

Or brain surgery.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You'd be the shaman putting holes into heads to cure headaches

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[โ€“] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 118 points 1 day ago (7 children)
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[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] juliebean@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

i'm a fairly deft hand at pottery. i'm also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that's a pretty big expanse. if i'm really lucky, i'd be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i've also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.

[โ€“] tupcakes@midwest.social 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Iโ€™d be the best at powershell. Unfortunately I wouldnโ€™t live very long.

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[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 10 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€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour 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€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

you do what you've got to do

[โ€“] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just by knowing how to wash my hands, medicine. Up until 20th century.

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