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[-] vodkasolution@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago

Cavernbook: a cavern where everyone chisel his/her photo and his/her thoughts

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing "chisel thoughts" is more akin to painting than writing. I like the idea though, very Lascaux

[-] kruddman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Dogs seem to like me so maybe I'd be one of the first to domesticate dogs. I'd probably just live with dogs.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Navigation and being the first to try a cool looking mushroom and findout how dead I get.

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[-] klep@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh! I'm actually somewhat decent with some useful things. I got sent to a wilderness school for fuck up kids when I was a teen. So I know how to, and have applied a lot of survival stuff.

I know how to effectively make a somewhat permanent shelter. I can make and use a bow drill to make fire, and along the same principal but with much more effort and time I could make fire with hand drill or fire plough techniques. I know how to make basic traps. I can make cordage, and have very, very very basic tracking skills. I know some edible and toxic plants in my area (not exhaustive by any means). I know how to clean and dress game. There's a lot of other stuff, but those popped into my head immediately.

It's been a long time since I've done all this, but the knowledge and know-how is all there. I'd actually be a decent person to have around!

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[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 6 points 3 months ago

obsessing over plants and accidentally dooming the world with agriculture

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Time travel, evidently.

[-] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago
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[-] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 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 )

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 5 points 3 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.

[-] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] fakir@lemm.ee 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.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Fucking, for sure

[-] glorkon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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!"

[-] pepsison52895@lemmy.one 5 points 3 months ago

Absolutely nothing lol. I do tech support for a living and work on cars as a hobby.

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[-] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Knapping.

Wait, I mean napping.

[-] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

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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[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Juggling. I'd find some nice stones or pinecones and teach everyone how to juggle and do some tricks. I also know an ancient game you can play with stones or knuckle bones. And I know some songs. And stories. People in the stone age had lots of free time to pass, so all of these would come in handy.

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Feeding the living with my body

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Criticizing people about their hair styles

[-] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 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.

[-] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

hoardlng stones

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 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.

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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

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