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[โ€“] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

hoardlng stones

[โ€“] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hitting people with a cudgel

[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Counting and therefore distributing spoils fairly. I would become a well-loved chief and would probably get laid more than I currently do, although the hairy partners may not be of my liking.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

eh beauty is relative and you'd get used to it. It sounds like you'd be the village sandwich maker, and yes I can imagine that being a very prestigious position

[โ€“] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Not being on the internet

[โ€“] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants

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[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our ancestors measured time to keep track of the breeding seasons of their prey as to not exterminate the local populations... so most likely for that

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[โ€“] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coal mining, I fucking love mining coal

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[โ€“] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

[โ€“] Alloi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.

Dying from a decease.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ironically, brute force. I would be great at hunting too!

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[โ€“] ChaosInstructor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...

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[โ€“] RedSnt 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess I could build a cart/waggon for easier transporting the dead animals the other guys hunted. Not sure if that would be much appreciated or if I just would be the weird guy again.

Maybe a plough would be more useful.

And building/improving shelter.

I could also make a fire after failing some time I suppose.

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[โ€“] _lilith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

test plant on grug before eating

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.

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Selling camping gear

[โ€“] Flemmy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

[โ€“] dirtycrow@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

min-maxxing my sticks

Dispensing elderly wisdom

[โ€“] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Feeding the living with my body

[โ€“] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

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