I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.
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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.
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!"
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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.
hoardlng stones
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.
Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.
Whittling. Drawing.
Meditation.
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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.
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
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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Dying from a decease.
tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.
You'd be a lot taller and probably also faster (maybe not stronger). You'd become a god-king in no time. Or be killed as a monster.
I want to say "crossfit".
stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit
looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...
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dying
Hitting people with a cudgel
Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
Feeding the living with my body
Dispensing elderly wisdom
Being dead
Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general
test plant on grug before eating
Selling camping gear
min-maxxing my sticks