Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
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min-maxxing my sticks
Selling camping gear
perhaps
geometry, politics and drugs
Being a bitch.
Sleeping and eating
Computers! Shit.
Dying.
Dying is not a task, dying is a condition
Iโd be the best at powershell. Unfortunately I wouldnโt live very long.
I find the powershell method gives me hemorrhoids, I much prefer the gentler three shells method.
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Yelling yabadabadoo and sliding down that dinosaur
I know how to make rope, among other things, as an eagle scout, and I have some experience with atatl so, probably dying of fever at 14.
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I'd probably be something of a builder/ "engineer."
I'm not actually an engineer, but I have a knack for utilizing what I have around me or simple enough objects to serve other goals. I suppose I'm what people used to call a Macgyver or "mechanically inclined."
So, what would you "build"?
Definitely some kind of stone bulwark at the cave entrance to keep out the bears and prehistoric cheetahs.
I was taught they never actually lived in caves, by an angry frenchman when I visited caves in France. The car sized bears did hibernate there though (and people did paintings in the caves).
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With or without my current knowledge?
Because I'm pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be "ending the stone age".
Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.
I don't even know what smelting ~~meant~~ means. Can we be cave-friends? I'm good at sharpening knives.
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I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.
Dying quickly
drawing dongs everywhere
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.
I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.
Hog cranking
Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.
You need weird rock? I got weird rock.
Cavernbook: a cavern where everyone chisel his/her photo and his/her thoughts
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