What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?
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Soap is animal fat and what in a survival situation?
Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy
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Starvation.
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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.
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Robert Sawyer has a series of science fiction books where there's a parallel universe in which neanderthals ended up ruling the earth instead of modern day humans.
It's been a while since I read them but the fact that you comment itched that part of my brain tells me there might have been a steamy parallel universe crossover scene or two
I need to start reading again
Well that's going on the list
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There is a whole world of romance novels in this setting.
Glit walked slowly across the plain, eyeing the group of hunters that surrounded the creature. It was large, much too large for the tribe to eat before the meat spoiled.
As he approached he could hear the argument already.
"No, rapal, you take that part! It was your spear that slowed her enough for us to catch her!"
"But it was your arrow that finally brought her down, Jatam, you should have that part for your family! You have 5 younglings!"
They would carry on like this for hours if left to their own devices, none wanting to be seen as greedy.
Glit approached and broke into the conversation,
"Hunters, good hunting," he said loudly, "Karana has smiled upon you today! The beast has laid down it's life for the survival of our people!"
The hunters beamed, proud not only of their work, but now in the secure knowledge of it's righteousness. The hunt has been approved, sanctified by the Storyteller, the one who speaks for the gods. They know they will be rewarded.
The hunters began disemboweling the enormous creature and cutting the choicest sections of meat off of her as Glit began to tell the story of Olana, the great Mother Elephant. He has told this story many times, but the hunters never tire of hearing it. When the work is done, and the story is told, Glit will reward the hunters and walk back to the tribe with them.
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Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy
Yep, IIRC hardwood is what you want to be using to make the lye
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Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.
Or brain surgery.
You'd be the shaman putting holes into heads to cure headaches
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Yea when I said that I excel at Excel I was somewhat exaggerating, much as I have at every job interview I've ever had. It's become something of a reflex these days. But as someone else has said I think that particular issue is just down to Excel being crap.
The more I learn about Excel, the more I know I don't know Excel.
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I wouldn’t survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe I’d create tools or something. Love tinkering.
This, anyone with strong glasses would be disabled in the stone age, lol. Needed some surgery before? You'd be dead.
I went through my whole (living) family tree once and I'm pretty none of us would have survived, including me.
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sucking dick
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I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.
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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.
I went through my whole (living) family tree once and I'm pretty none of us would have survived, including me.
Yeah loooooots of people wouldn’t survive
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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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Tell me you work in middle management
Not quite. Former history teacher now in an office environment
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Ironically, brute force. I would be great at hunting too!
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Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.
Whittling. Drawing.
Meditation.
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Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?
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Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?
That's a supermodel compared to her.
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Breeding
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Yea when I said that I excel at Excel I was somewhat exaggerating, much as I have at every job interview I've ever had. It's become something of a reflex these days. But as someone else has said I think that particular issue is just down to Excel being crap.
I had someone at work ask me if I was an expert at Excel. I've written macros in VBA and made formulas that would have been easier as a macro so I could save them as xlsx instead of xlsm. I said yes, with some hesitation. She asked me if I could help her with a problem and I said sure. The problem was a bunch of hidden cells. At least it wasn't a bunch of data she'd deleted and wanted me to get back for her.
The amazing part was how hard it was to show the cells in the latest version of Excel.
