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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months ago

What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?

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What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?

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  • @[email protected]
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    25•3 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•3 months ago

      You don’t think they’d hang you with your own rope?

      • @[email protected]
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        2•3 months ago

        I mean depends on how the crops looked; im sure they’d tie me for bog body purposes and toss me in the dip if the crops were bad enough and I went feverish. The gods gotta eat too after all.

  • @[email protected]
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    13•3 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t even know what smelting meant means. Can we be cave-friends? I’m good at sharpening knives.

  • @[email protected]
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    12•3 months ago

    Storytelling & oral sex.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•3 months ago

      But not simultaneously.

      • @[email protected]
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        6•3 months ago

        Once upon a slurp slurp slurp

  • @[email protected]
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    deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.

  • @[email protected]
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    8•3 months ago

    I wouldn’t survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe I’d create tools or something. Love tinkering.

    • @[email protected]
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      This, anyone with strong glasses would be disabled in the stone age, lol. Needed some surgery before? You’d be dead. Ever broke a bone? Likely dead.

      I went through my whole (living) family tree once and I’m pretty sure none of us would have survived, including me.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•3 months ago

        Yeah loooooots of people wouldn’t survive

  • @[email protected]
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    8•3 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    8•3 months ago

    making fire.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2•3 months ago

      You good at making fires in the present?

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        6•3 months ago

        am i an expert ? no.

        am I pretty good at it. I’d say yes. what i haven’t done I have seen done enough times I should be able to get it to work.

  • Clocks [They/Them]
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    7•3 months ago

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

    Or brain surgery.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hey, maybe you’ll be the most successful neolithic brain surgeon and only kill half your patients

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

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      2•3 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    6•3 months ago

    Wanking

  • @[email protected]
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    6•3 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2•3 months ago

      why navigation?

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        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

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          oh that’s decent

          *invites you to the caveman inner-circle*

  • @[email protected]
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    5•3 months 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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    5•3 months ago

    Hog cranking

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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    4•3 months ago

    Dying

    • @[email protected]
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      The only correct answer.

  • Dogiedog64
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    Dying, mostly.

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