Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.
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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.
test plant on grug before eating
hoardlng stones
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!"
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).
I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.
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.
Absolutely nothing lol. I do tech support for a living and work on cars as a hobby.
Well, cavemen also need tech support, just a different kind of tech.
Gork: "Stick go thud. I want go stab"
Pepsison: "Have you tried rebooting it?"
Gork: "?"
Pepsison: "Sorry, old habit" Sharpens his spear "try it now"
Gork: "Gork happy. Gork bring you mammoth"
And with Gork happy I'm sure he can help you find the right twigs twine and logs to make a primitive cart. Soon you and Gork can haul all the mammoth you'd ever need.
Maybe you could build a wooden bicycle.
I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants
Knapping.
Wait, I mean napping.
Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.
looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...
I think he's got quite a friendly face tbh
you are totally right...but it is not a pretty face.
If you could figure out how to make soap from fat, you could be the clean one. Supposedly that helped the Vikings take the ladies home.
well...most of the women we took home were slaves...if we were clean or not did not make any difference...
Dying from a decease.
Hitting people with a cudgel
min-maxxing my sticks
Being dead
Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general
Feeding the living with my body
Wololooo
Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
Dispensing elderly wisdom
Selling camping gear
Sloth simulator
Chef
Georgia senator by the looks of the picture.