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[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

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

[โ€“] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

That is genuinely a revolutionary and practical skill to have

[โ€“] fakir@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[โ€“] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

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

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] Farvana@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Knapping.

Wait, I mean napping.

[โ€“] Alloi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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

[โ€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days 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.

[โ€“] pepsison52895@lemmy.one 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days 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.

[โ€“] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days 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.

[โ€“] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days 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

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Criticizing people about their hair styles

[โ€“] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago

Probably dying at age <1.

[โ€“] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Coal mining, I fucking love mining coal

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[โ€“] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

hoardlng stones

Dying from a decease.

[โ€“] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Protecting the womenfolk while the other menfolk are out hunting

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

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

[โ€“] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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[โ€“] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

tfw you can't say "town bike" bc bicycles won't be invented for thousands of years

i think i'd make good bait though

[โ€“] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The hard part about a simple bicycle isn't actually the bicycle, it's smooth road. If you don't have that you have to invent the mountainbike and that one's not even a 100 years old.

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