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

[greg@lemmy.ca]

Criticizing people about their hair styles

[derpenheim@lemmy.zip]

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

[0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sloth simulator

[rbwells@lemmy.world]

I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.

[kazuchijouno@lemy.lol]

Been watching primitive technology huh?

[chapo_is_red@hexbear.net]

Make booze

[lumpypancakes@lemm.ee]

Maybe you could build a wooden bicycle.

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Probably tool making.

It would take time to get back into it, but I was turning out decent knives, spear points, and arrowheads for a while there. Nothing that would blow anyone's mind as art, but pretty enough and usable.

One of those things I did just because I wanted to see if I could, and it turned out to be really relaxing and enjoyable. Arthritis took the enjoyable and relaxing part away, so I stopped, but on a survival level, I could get the job done well enough to make up for being a bottom tier hunter.

[sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[glitterkoe@lemmy.world]

Wololooo

[asafum@feddit.nl]

It depends on what was needed at the time, but probably things like tools and housing. Obviously considering the time we're talking about it would be very "primitive" lol

[mothra@mander.xyz]

I'd be a good forager, gatherer and tracker. I have a knack for identifying plants and animals and spotting signs of their presence. I'm sure with a bit of training I could become decent at trapping too but I've never done that.

I'd also be good at art, be that cave wall painting or figurine sculpting/carving.

[passingduchy@lemmy.world]

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.

[cmdrshepard42@lemm.ee]

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.

[redsnt@feddit.dk]

I want to say "crossfit".

[corno@lemm.ee]

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

[texasdrunk@lemmy.world]

But not simultaneously.

[texasdrunk@lemmy.world]

I'm pretty ok at knapping flint and I'm not a terrible hunter. I'm also usually in poor health.

So I'd probably die as a baby.

[veroxii@aussie.zone]

But if you knew what you knew now you could do a lot. Just knowing that you can bake mud to make clay. Getting running water to where you live could be a game changer. It's the key to agriculture, sanitation, etc.

Weapons are the same. Knowing something like the bow and arrow is possible will put you way ahead of sharp sticks and rocks.

[veroxii@aussie.zone]

I think a big part of this is just knowing what is possible. Not having to "chance upon" things for the first time.