Coal mining, I fucking love mining coal
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Knapping.
Wait, I mean napping.
I feel like I could get flintknapping down pretty well.
Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.
tool making most likely. also fire keeping, and cooking.
I'd be the hairless monkey that stays up all night and talks to plants
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looking like that...most likely not a Don Juan. so hunting and fishing, i could scare anything to death...
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dying
Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.
Whittling. Drawing.
Meditation.
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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).
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.
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.
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
Not being on the internet
I want to say "crossfit".
stoneagers would trounce any of us at crossfit
I'm reasonably good at surviving pregnancy and childbirth, and nursing. Think all my other skills are only useful after the agricultural revolution.
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.
Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
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.
Dispensing elderly wisdom
Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! ๐ Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general
Being dead
Feeding the living with my body
min-maxxing my sticks