Dying from allergies & asthma.
While still living, the tribe could deploy me as an animal detector: place me at the front of hunting parties, and the moment I start sneezing & wheezing, they know they've got prey nearby.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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Being dead
Cave paintings, since I'm an artist! π Also probably building tools and things since I enjoy building stuff in general
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.
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.
Tell me you work in middle management
Not quite. Former history teacher now in an office environment
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.
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
min-maxxing my sticks
Selling camping gear
Knapping flint while fishing. And shitting under a tree. I feel like my ancestors have more in common than I thought.
perhaps
geometry, politics and drugs
i think i could get pretty good at knapping stones into tools if i lived back then
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.
vee, loop up.