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
Dying, mostly.
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.
Navigation and being the first to try a cool looking mushroom and findout how dead I get.
why navigation?
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
oh that’s decent
*invites you to the caveman inner-circle*
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
Or just to better understand how and where to catch them. Don’t forget we hunted all kinds of things to extinction anyway.
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!
That’s a pretty excellent school to go to, hell I wish I had that level of training
I think excel would be good software for managing hunter rotations, supplies and stone inventory.
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.
Time travel, evidently.
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
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.
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.
I’m pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so I’d probably just die.
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.
With enough grease any old stick can be an axle for a while, the wheel is the hard part.
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.
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.
When I say axle (that is the correct spelling for this, according to a quick search, FYI), I mean it has a stationary bearing in which it turns. So what you’re calling a “semipermanent but smooth rolling attached point”. A roller is a completely different simple machine with no sliding surfaces.
Is that Marjorie Trailer Greene?
That’s a supermodel compared to her.
