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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Time travel, evidently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

obsessing over plants and accidentally dooming the world with agriculture

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.

You need weird rock? I got weird rock.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bronze peddler. "Hello, have you heard of bronze? Just attach it to your axe instead of stone. No more annoying stone chopping! And look, it's shiny!"

[โ€“] SplashJackson 5 points 2 months ago

Fucking, for sure

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Butchering, I live on a farm and butcher sheep/lamb and chicken is second nature to me ( started when I was 12 )

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.

[โ€“] Greg 4 points 3 months ago

Criticizing people about their hair styles

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Uhhuh - what were you doing in my wife's cave there

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I would introduce them to scrumpy, then teach them to grow apples so we can make more.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can imagine you making a rock hammer, and having to sit there and justify to people why the end has that weird flange. "It's for pulling things out!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right, come to think of it, I definitely would be the weird guy that doesn't understand how the community works. I couldn't speak their language, wouldn't know their common practices and hierarchy.

I'd likely go (be exiled) on my own lonely journey (aaand thus quickly die).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

hoardlng stones

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