I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.
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Hog cranking
Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.
You need weird rock? I got weird rock.
Cavernbook: a cavern where everyone chisel his/her photo and his/her thoughts
I'm guessing "chisel thoughts" is more akin to painting than writing. I like the idea though, very Lascaux
Butchering, I live on a farm and butcher sheep/lamb and chicken is second nature to me ( started when I was 12 )
Dying from a decease.
I can make soap from fats and lye (from wood ash). Getting the right balance of fats/lye would be tricky; I've never used wood ash so I'd need some time to work out the right formula. But, theoretically, I could make handmade soap for everyone.
That is genuinely a revolutionary and practical skill to have
Hitting people with a cudgel
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.
Reaching things on top of the fridge would be my special skill. I hope they'd create a special government position just for people like me.
Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.
Being that person providing a better method halfway through a process. A cave person standing on top of another to cave art the ceiling? Halfway through I go "...You know you coulda just grabbed the log from outside, leaned it against the wall and climbed it". Someone halfway through whittling a bowl? "Oh, yeah, I saw some coconuts on the beach they'd be perfect".
I have the great hobby of Looking At Random Things, but the bad habit of assuming everyone else saw those things too so they must be doing what they're doing for a reason lol. That all said I'm sure I'd be dead from dysentery within a week or smtg, they wouldn't have to suffer me long.
Knapping.
Wait, I mean napping.
test plant on grug before eating
Absolutely nothing lol. I do tech support for a living and work on cars as a hobby.
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If I had my current knowledge, low-level iron forging, agriculture, and architecture (cisterns, wells, deep food storage) and very rudimentary medicine because the wife is obsessed with various herbs that are used to make our modern medicine
If I was starting from scratch, probably just be decent at hunting because I have good hand eye coordination and maybe tracking