What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?
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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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Recreational drug use can be traced to before written history. Bartering also existed then. I'd be a drug dealer.
Fun fact: Barter only seems to occur in human societies when a. markets were previously established b. those markets collapse. Check out David Graber's 'Debt: first 5000 yrs' for more info. Most societies are debt based- as in people just do things for each other but keep basic accounts in there heads. Eg. You paid for dinner out last month, i'll pay this month(doesn't really matter how much was spent, the exactness isn't very important) Or, my grandma makes the coolest knit socks, I'm gonna ask her to make some for me and then shes gonna have me do some yard work when i visit later.
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Poison Sommelier.
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wouldn't that get you killed very fast?
someone's gotta be up at night, tho! Lots of theories around generational sleep patterns and teen-elderly sleep schedules leave very little time where someone isn't just normally awake- teens naturally stay up late and prefer to sleep late, old folks naturally wake up early and sleep early.
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hoardlng stones
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Foraging for plants.
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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
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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.
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Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting
Uhhuh - what were you doing in my wife's cave there
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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.
Tell me you work in middle management
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Being dead
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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
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the town (whatever the stone age word for flintstones car was)
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Poison Sommelier.
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looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...
If you could figure out how to make soap from fat, you could be the clean one. Supposedly that helped the Vikings take the ladies home.
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Criticizing people about their hair styles
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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
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Sloth simulator
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I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.
