I mean depends on how the crops looked; im sure they'd tie me for bog body purposes and toss me in the dip if the crops were bad enough and I went feverish. The gods gotta eat too after all.

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Aggravationstation 36 points a year ago

Excel, it wouldn't be useful but I'd still be great at it.

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Notyou 9 points a year ago

Great! I got a random Excel question. Sometimes when I pull reports at work the format for the price changes. Instead of showing the $ and the correct amount of spaces after the cent sign like .00, it has no $ and many digits after the cent sign like .000000000000000.

Now when I try to change the cell format back to currency, accounting, text, or anything it keeps the same format and amount of digital after the cent sign. The work around I found is to open up a different Excel doc type it in the correct format and then copy and paste over the incorrect formatted cell.

Do you can a better answer or did I explain horribly and your as confused as me when I try to fix Excel?

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B0rax 5 points a year ago

That’s just excel being excel.

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superkret 2 points a year ago

It Excels at formatting.

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Aggravationstation 4 points a year ago

Yea when I said that I excel at Excel I was somewhat exaggerating, much as I have at every job interview I've ever had. It's become something of a reflex these days. But as someone else has said I think that particular issue is just down to Excel being crap.

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Notyou 4 points a year ago

The more I learn about Excel, the more I know I don't know Excel.

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GreyEyedGhost 3 points a year ago

I had someone at work ask me if I was an expert at Excel. I've written macros in VBA and made formulas that would have been easier as a macro so I could save them as xlsx instead of xlsm. I said yes, with some hesitation. She asked me if I could help her with a problem and I said sure. The problem was a bunch of hidden cells. At least it wasn't a bunch of data she'd deleted and wanted me to get back for her.

The amazing part was how hard it was to show the cells in the latest version of Excel.

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gothic_lemons 4 points a year ago

I haven't encountered this but have you tried select the cell, going to the home ribbon tab I think, then clicking normal. Then adding the number formating you want

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JadenSmith 34 points a year ago

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CanadaPlus 2 points a year ago

It always bugs me how cavemen wheels aren't ever depicted with a matching axle. That's the hard and novel part! I'm glad this guy found an alternative for it.

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superniceperson 1 point a year ago

With enough grease any old stick can be an axle for a while, the wheel is the hard part.

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CanadaPlus 1 point a year ago

At the very least, novel applies. Lots of things roll, but what in nature has an axle? I'd also like to clarify that they probably didn't use stone in real life, because that would be dumb. I suppose if we're insisting it's monolithic stone that's true just because of the raw time it would take. And oh boy, they better be careful not to crack it.

If you have a proper axle, you have a lathe and turning a solid wheel for a cart shouldn't be too hard. Failing that, or failing the idea to try turning, it has to be freehand, but plenty of people could do that (more so than today, probably, since every moment we spend in a classroom or office is a moment they would be working with their hands).

If it has to be a wheel that's strong and light like for a chariot, it gets harder and you'll need actual wheelwright skills, but just a cart should be able to run an a solid wheel. If you're going for a chariot you probably want a reasonably well-fit axle as well, although my knowledge of chariot driving is too limited to be super sure.

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superniceperson 1 point a year ago

I would argue axels came first, and the wheel is a derivative. See the likely methods accepted by (non ancient alien) archeologists for paleolithic to bronze age wonders made from stone; they used logs on the ground as rollers, essentially an axel, it wouldn't take much of a leap to carve out the majority of those logs to lighten the load, creating a fixed wheel axel, which just needs a semipermanent but smooth rolling attach point to a vehicle or tool to be even more useful.

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Asafum 29 points a year ago

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."

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Valmond 6 points a year ago

So, what would you "build"?

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KittenBiscuits 10 points a year ago

Definitely some kind of stone bulwark at the cave entrance to keep out the bears and prehistoric cheetahs.

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tetris11 6 points a year ago

would you ever try to make something resembling a car / cart?

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verity 3 points a year ago

The flintstones car was a the essential tool humanity used to create civilisation so of course

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Valmond 1 point a year ago

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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Asafum 1 point a year ago

It depends on what was needed at the time, but probably things like tools and housing. Obviously considering the time we're talking about it would be very "primitive" lol

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veroxii 4 points a year ago

But if you knew what you knew now you could do a lot. Just knowing that you can bake mud to make clay. Getting running water to where you live could be a game changer. It's the key to agriculture, sanitation, etc.

Weapons are the same. Knowing something like the bow and arrow is possible will put you way ahead of sharp sticks and rocks.

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Fandangalo 25 points a year ago

Storytelling & oral sex.

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TexasDrunk 6 points a year ago

But not simultaneously.

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Jimmycrackcrack 9 points a year ago

Once upon a slurp slurp slurp

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dharmacurious 3 points a year ago

Beat me to it. Mine was "storytelling and sexually gratifying the hunters in exchange for food"

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Flemmy 5 points a year ago

There is a whole world of romance novels in this setting.

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200ok 4 points a year ago

Robert Sawyer has a series of science fiction books where there's a parallel universe in which neanderthals ended up ruling the earth instead of modern day humans.

It's been a while since I read them but the fact that you comment itched that part of my brain tells me there might have been a steamy parallel universe crossover scene or two 🤔

I need to start reading again

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dharmacurious 2 points a year ago

Well that's going on the list

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dharmacurious 3 points a year ago

Glit walked slowly across the plain, eyeing the group of hunters that surrounded the creature. It was large, much too large for the tribe to eat before the meat spoiled.

As he approached he could hear the argument already.

"No, rapal, you take that part! It was your spear that slowed her enough for us to catch her!"

"But it was your arrow that finally brought her down, Jatam, you should have that part for your family! You have 5 younglings!"

They would carry on like this for hours if left to their own devices, none wanting to be seen as greedy.

Glit approached and broke into the conversation,

"Hunters, good hunting," he said loudly, "Karana has smiled upon you today! The beast has laid down it's life for the survival of our people!"

The hunters beamed, proud not only of their work, but now in the secure knowledge of it's righteousness. The hunt has been approved, sanctified by the Storyteller, the one who speaks for the gods. They know they will be rewarded.

The hunters began disemboweling the enormous creature and cutting the choicest sections of meat off of her as Glit began to tell the story of Olana, the great Mother Elephant. He has told this story many times, but the hunters never tire of hearing it. When the work is done, and the story is told, Glit will reward the hunters and walk back to the tribe with them.

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SoulWager 21 points a year ago

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.

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KazuchijouNo 4 points a year ago

Been watching primitive technology huh?

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SoulWager 3 points a year ago

I mean, I have, but I saw this long before he started trying to smelt Iron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

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tpyo 1 point a year ago

That was fascinating thank you! I watched the whole thing. There's a ton of work those people put into making their iron. Truly a community effort

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200ok 1 point a year ago

I don't even know what smelting meant means. Can we be cave-friends? I'm good at sharpening knives.

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Witchfire 19 points a year ago

Dying

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tehn00bi 4 points a year ago

The only correct answer.

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HappinessPill 17 points a year ago

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UltraGiGaGigantic 15 points a year ago

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.

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Contemporarium 15 points a year ago

Dying

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nailbar 10 points a year ago

I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.

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Contemporarium 2 points a year ago

Yeah I typed my comment then scrolled and realized I’m extremely unoriginal:)

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nailbar 1 point a year ago

Cavemen would have just rolled their eyes when people died back then. Like, pffft, everybody does that.

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andrewta 15 points a year ago

making fire.

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tetris11 4 points a year ago

You good at making fires in the present?

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andrewta 9 points a year ago

am i an expert ? no.

am I pretty good at it. I'd say yes. what i haven't done I have seen done enough times I should be able to get it to work.

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veroxii 4 points a year ago

I think a big part of this is just knowing what is possible. Not having to "chance upon" things for the first time.

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superkret 14 points a year ago

I'm a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
I can find north without a compass, day and night.
I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.

I think I'd do reasonably well.
Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I'm in the wild.

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hperrin 14 points a year ago

I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.

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quediuspayu 11 points a year ago

Just by knowing how to wash my hands, medicine. Up until 20th century.

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Korhaka 8 points a year ago

Wash the wound with soapy water, apply cloth that has been boiled. Yeah that should have a better survival rate than most of human history.

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Contemporarium 4 points a year ago

Soap is animal fat and what in a survival situation?

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RedAggroBest 3 points a year ago

Leach wood ashes with water to make lye. Soap is easy

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Korhaka 1 point a year ago

Yep, IIRC hardwood is what you want to be using to make the lye

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Contemporarium 1 point a year ago

What if there’s no leech wood?

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Contemporarium 1 point a year ago

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crowbar 10 points a year ago

drawing dongs everywhere

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Mearuu 10 points a year ago

Dying quickly

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venusaur 10 points a year ago

I wouldn’t survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe I’d create tools or something. Love tinkering.

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taxiiiii 3 points a year ago

This, anyone with strong glasses would be disabled in the stone age, lol. Needed some surgery before? You'd be dead. Ever broke a bone? Likely dead.

I went through my whole (living) family tree once and I'm pretty sure none of us would have survived, including me.

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venusaur 2 points a year ago

Yeah loooooots of people wouldn’t survive

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doomsdayrs 9 points a year ago

Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.

Or brain surgery.

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RedAggroBest 5 points a year ago

Hey, maybe you'll be the most successful neolithic brain surgeon and only kill half your patients

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

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tetris11 4 points a year ago

You'd be the shaman putting holes into heads to cure headaches

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CheeseToastie 2 points a year ago

It could go either way

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Sculptor9157 8 points a year ago

Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?

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dumbass 2 points a year ago

That's a supermodel compared to her.

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HatchetHaro 8 points a year ago

technical art and programming for video games

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southsamurai 8 points a year ago

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.

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NightCrawlerProMax 8 points a year ago

Wanking

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iamkindasomeone 3 points a year ago

Who (and when) was the first person in history to wank? And how did they find out?

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arken 5 points a year ago

Genesis 38:8-10

Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing[.]

In all seriousness, since apes do it (a lot), I don't think there ever were a "first person in history". It's more just a consequence of having long enough arms.

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iamkindasomeone 2 points a year ago

But could an elephant also have done it first?

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arken 7 points a year ago

An elephant? Why not the wooly mammoth?

All I know is that I now completely understand why the T-Rex was so aggressive all the time.

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YMS 3 points a year ago

Probably like probably most people still do find out nowadays.

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iamkindasomeone 2 points a year ago

I doubt there was porn at that time!

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Opisek 1 point a year ago

You'd be surprised

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ThomasCrappersGhost 1 point a year ago

I want to know how they figured out shagging and how that creates babies.

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arken 1 point a year ago

how that created babies

Exactly how wasn't known anywhere before1875, however most humans through history seem to have had some idea of there being a connection between sex and pregnancy. I remember reading about isolated island peoples having other ideas, like the Trobriand people who believed that an ancestral spirit entered the woman's body and that sex had nothing to do with it. However this article claims those reports are half-true at best; the Trobriand people apparently considers sex necessary for the formation of the fetus, even if it's not the primary cause. There's also some speculation that humans became aware of the relationship between sex and pregnancy after the domestication of dogs because of their shorter gestation period. Ultimately, we'll never know...

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some_guy 8 points a year ago

Starvation.

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Dogiedog64 8 points a year ago

Dying, mostly.

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loomy 7 points a year ago

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molten 7 points a year ago

Hog cranking

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davidagain 6 points a year ago

Time travel, evidently.

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MTK 6 points a year ago

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

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tetris11 2 points a year ago

why navigation?

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MTK 4 points a year ago

I just have a really good sense of direction and memory of places and paths.

Usually if I went somewhere even only once, even a year later I can recall how to get there again

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tetris11 2 points a year ago

oh that's decent

*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*

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klep 6 points a year 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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tetris11 2 points a year ago

That's a pretty excellent school to go to, hell I wish I had that level of training

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kruddman 6 points a year ago

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gibmiser 6 points a year ago

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

You need weird rock? I got weird rock.

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vodkasolution 6 points a year ago

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

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tetris11 4 points a year ago

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

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Strider 6 points a year ago

I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

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HipsterTenZero 6 points a year ago

obsessing over plants and accidentally dooming the world with agriculture

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glorkon 5 points a year 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!"

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endeavor 5 points a year ago

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sweetviolentblush 5 points a year 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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tetris11 3 points a year ago

That is genuinely a revolutionary and practical skill to have

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POTOOOOOOOO 5 points a year ago

Foraging for plants.

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tetris11 2 points a year ago

pretty useful skill, even now

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fakir 5 points a year 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.

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nuko147 5 points a year ago

Finding fruit trees. Hunting would be my weak point.

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crony 4 points a year ago

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

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Derpenheim 4 points a year 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

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Doctor_Satan 4 points a year ago

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

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Korhaka 4 points a year ago

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

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RattlerSix 4 points a year ago

Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting

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tetris11 4 points a year ago

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

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neidu3 4 points a year ago

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

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RagingRobot 4 points a year ago

Breeding

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CmdrShepard42 4 points a year 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.

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juliebean 4 points a year 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.

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SplashJackson 3 points a year ago

Fucking, for sure

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CaptainBlagbird 3 points a year ago

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.

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tetris11 3 points a year ago

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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CaptainBlagbird 3 points a year 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).

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KSPAtlas 3 points a year ago

Not being on the internet

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blindbunny 3 points a year ago

I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants

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tetris11 1 point a year ago

wouldn't that get you killed very fast?

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blindbunny 5 points a year ago

Hey I didn't say I'd be successful

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WorldsDumbestMan 3 points a year ago

Ironically, brute force. I would be great at hunting too!

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4shtonButcher 4 points a year ago

Username checks out

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random_character_a 3 points a year ago

Dying from a decease.

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RBWells 3 points a year ago

I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.

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ChaosInstructor 3 points a year ago

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tetris11 4 points a year ago

I think he's got quite a friendly face tbh

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ChaosInstructor 2 points a year ago

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anomnom 1 point a year ago

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.

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ChaosInstructor 1 point a year ago

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CitizenKong 3 points a year ago

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.

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biofaust 3 points a year ago

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.

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tetris11 3 points a year ago

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

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daepicgamerbro69 3 points a year ago

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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CanadaPlus 1 point a year ago

Or just to better understand how and where to catch them. Don't forget we hunted all kinds of things to extinction anyway.

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Grass 3 points a year ago

dying

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Zombiepirate 3 points a year ago

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

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Greg 3 points a year ago

Criticizing people about their hair styles

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nutsack 3 points a year ago

sucking dick

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uniquethrowagay 3 points a year ago

While I believe you, dear nutsack, take a minute and think about the whole process of sucking dick before showers were a thing.

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nutsack 1 point a year ago

you do what you've got to do

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CanadaPlus 1 point a year ago

They were just used to it. Even today, bathing frequency is culturally dependent.

When old love poetry talks about the musk of a lover, I do wonder at what range it was noticeable.

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Thcdenton 3 points a year ago

Hitting people with a cudgel

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RedSnt 3 points a year ago

I want to say "crossfit".

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frightful_hobgoblin 2 points a year ago

stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit

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Alloi 3 points a year ago

tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.

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PassingDuchy 2 points a year 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.

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butsbutts 2 points a year ago

hoardlng stones

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Flemmy 2 points a year ago

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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_lilith 2 points a year ago

test plant on grug before eating

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dirtycrow 2 points a year ago

min-maxxing my sticks

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WhatsHerBucket 2 points a year ago

Dispensing elderly wisdom

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rainrain 2 points a year ago

Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.

Whittling. Drawing.

Meditation.

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Robbity 0 points a year ago

shovel

We said stone age.

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rainrain 2 points a year ago

We had shovels in the stone age.

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CanadaPlus 1 point a year ago

Depends what you mean by shovel. Little wooden scoops/spades might have been a thing, although hands will work nearly as well on soft substances. For bigger jobs the digging stick was the tool of choice, and then baskets to move the rubble or economic load (ocher, tubers) out.

I'm guessing multi-piece wooden shovels, if they were ever commonly used, had to wait for some level of civilisation. That's a very difficult thing to make with no proper tools, and not trivial even with. Ditto for bone, and nothing else available in nature is strong and rigid enough under bending.

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Corno 2 points a year ago

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! 😃 Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

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CanadaPlus 2 points a year ago

Mandatory I'd have died more than once, but I suspect I would have been good at mental things like tracking and storytelling. I'd probably suck at everything else, too.

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Mothra 2 points a year ago

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.

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SocialMediaRefugee 2 points a year ago

Selling camping gear

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HiddenLayer555 1 point a year ago

Honestly if I had my current level of knowledge, probably hygene. Teach them to make soap (animal fat and a source of base like ash), wash their hands, keep poop away from potable water sources, stuff like that.

Remember, it literally took until Victorian times to figure out that washing your hands prevents disease.

Also, math. Teach them how to do basic arithmetic, how to use a unit of measurement to figure out how big something is, stuff we'd learn in elementary school but weren't rigorously developed until the Ancient Greek age.

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tetris11 2 points a year ago

Soap is super important, as for math - I'm guessing it's going to need to be geometry based before they can grok irrational numbers, or hell, symbolic notation in general

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stinky 1 point a year ago

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BassTurd 1 point a year ago

Georgia senator by the looks of the picture.

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thefartographer 1 point a year ago

Feeding the living with my body

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TropicalDingdong 1 point a year ago

vee, loop up.

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eestileib 1 point a year ago

Being dead

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0_o7 1 point a year ago

Sloth simulator

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Glitterkoe 1 point a year ago

Wololooo

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sharkfucker420 1 point a year ago

Chef

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TexasDrunk 1 point a year ago

I'm pretty ok at knapping flint and I'm not a terrible hunter. I'm also usually in poor health.

So I'd probably die as a baby.

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ColdWater 1 point a year ago

Sleeping and eating

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dumbass 1 point a year ago

Being a bitch.

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serenissi 1 point a year ago

perhaps

geometry, politics and drugs

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Sunsofold 1 point a year ago

Probably dying at age <1.

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LordWiggle 1 point a year ago

I would excel in the use of the internet and computers as I would be the only one with knowledge about it. I would also be the only one who knows how to drive a car.

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Quilotoa 0 points a year ago

Running away.

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Diddlydee 0 points a year ago

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Karyoplasma 0 points a year ago

Being the cave complex idiot.

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