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[โ€“] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 5 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€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the town (whatever the stone age word for flintstones car was)

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[โ€“] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Feeding the living with my body

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

test plant on grug before eating

[โ€“] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit

[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days 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.

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

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

[โ€“] Carl@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Clan rock stacker.

[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

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

I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.

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

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.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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!"

[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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).

[โ€“] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] ChaosInstructor@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think he's got quite a friendly face tbh

you are totally right...but it is not a pretty face.

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[โ€“] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Not being on the internet

[โ€“] Flemmy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.

[โ€“] dirtycrow@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

min-maxxing my sticks

Selling camping gear

[โ€“] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general

[โ€“] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
[โ€“] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago
[โ€“] buttwater@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm good with plants, I'm observant, I like stargazing, I'm a good de-escalator. I'd probably an elder and end up doing some type of weather forecasting.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tell me you work in middle management

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